Zi:较
较(F較) [jiào] relatively; quite; 比较 compare/contrast; relatively/fairly [jiǎo] (口语) 比较 [jué] [xiào] cf. 較
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The character 较/較 jué ‘horizontal/linking member of a carriage compartment’ (serving as seats/etc.) combines 车/車 (chē) ‘carriage’, and 交 jiāo ‘cross/link’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. 䡈, with 爻 yáo (phonosemantic).
Note: Today mainly 较/較 jiào ‘compare’ (比较, 较量); cf. 角 jué ‘compete’ (比试); cf. 䡈 jiào ‘war chariot’.
Compare: 校 jiào ‘cangue/shackles’, today mainly 校 xiào ‘school’ (学校 xuéxiào).
Compare: 绞/絞 jiǎo ‘strangle, hang (by the neck, to death)’.
“[較] (To vie in charioteering:) test, compare, criticize, dispute; (all compared:) generally, on the whole” —Karlgren(AD).
►references: Karlgren:AD357; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:5.3532.1; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:150.1.08; EDOC:0
►components: 车交
►Cantonese: gaau-
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<comp char='车' uni='8F66' variant='1' points='0,0 52,128' />
<comp char='交' uni='4EA4' points='56,0 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='车' uni='8F66' variant='1' points='0,0 58,128'>
<stroke type='h' points='6,24 120,24' />
<stroke type='sz' points='68,0 12,64 124,64' />
<stroke type='s' points='72,46 72,128' />
<stroke type='t' points='0,100 128,82' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='交' uni='4EA4'>
<comp char='亠' uni='4EA0' points='0,0 128,26' />
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<comp char='乂' uni='4E42' variant='2' points='0,60 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='亠' uni='4EA0' points='0,16 128,48'>
<stroke type='d' points='54,0 68,92' />
<stroke type='h' points='0,128 128,128' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='乂' uni='4E42' variant='2' radical='K0'>
<stroke type='p' points='92,0 0,128' tail='long' />
<stroke type='n' points='36,11 128,128' head='cut' />
<!-- variant based on [U+E81E](V=0) -->
</cdl>
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