Zi:較

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(S​) [jiào] relatively; quite; ​較 compare/contrast; relatively/fairly [jiǎo] (​) ​較; (HDZ:) … [jué] ​, … [xiào] ​

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    HDZ: 較 : jué : ​ (cf. ​, ​, ​/​; ​, ​), ​, ​; ​ (​西; ​); ​; ​: ​ (​); ​ • jiào : ​, ​; ​, ​; ​; ​; ​; ​; (​) ​; (​) ​, ​; (​) ​; ​: ​, ​, ​; ​: ​ • xiào : ​: ​
    HDC: ​/​: (​) ​
(Explanation from the entry for the simple form ​:) The character ​/較 jué ‘horizontal/linking member of a carriage compartment’ (serving as seats/etc.) combines ​/​ (chē) ‘carriage’, and ​(​􁰨) jiāo ‘cross/link’ (phonosemantic); formerly wr. ​(​􂡈), with ​(​􀣳) yáo (phonosemantic).
    Note: Today mainly ​/較 jiào ‘compare’ (​, ​); cf. ​ jué ‘compete’ (​); cf. ​(​􂡈) jiào ‘war chariot’.
    Compare: ​(​􁁹) jiào ‘cangue/shackles’, today mainly ​ xiào ‘school’ (​ xuéxiào).
    Compare: ​/​(​􁰪) 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:GSR1166b'; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:5.3531.5; Mathews:713; Guǎngyùn:415.25,464.05; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1242.31; EDOC:1
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