Kanji · JLPT N5 · Level 5
校 school
- Meaning
- school
- On reading
- コウ
- Kun reading
- -
Memory hook
木 (tree) beside 交 (cross, mix): wooden buildings where everyone mixes together. コウ. It appears almost only in 学校 gakkō.
Words that use 校
学校
がっこう
school
高校
こうこう
high school
How to write 校
Stroke order · 10 strokes
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10
- 1. Horizontal.
- 2. Vertical.
- 3. The sweep down to the left.
- 4 to 5. A short dot.
- 6. Horizontal.
- 7. The sweep down to the left.
- 8. The diagonal down to the right.
- 9. The sweep down to the left.
- 10. The diagonal down to the right.
Stroke data from KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
General rules
- Top to bottom, left to right.
- Horizontal strokes before crossing vertical ones (十 = horizontal, then vertical).
- Outside before inside - but close a box last (口).
- A vertical that passes all the way through comes last (中).
- Left-falling diagonal before right-falling (大).
校 is taught on day 22 of the kanji course, alongside 学 何, with two writing passes and a short quiz.