Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 教

教

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Meaning

 to educate, teach, religion

Pronunciation

 jiāo, jiào

Explanation

 Left: filial obedience 孝 (... An old man 耂 with a stick/cane ノ teaches them to a child 子), right: strike 攵/攴 (a hand 又 with a further stick 卜)

Mnemonic

On this earth children a striked with a stick as: education.

Radicals

孝 filial piety( or obedience)
攴 rap, strike(Shows originally a hand 又 with a whip 卜. It is usually simplified to 攵. Other radicals with a hand are: 又寸廾爫手扌彐右及尹君聿隶兼殳)
耂 old man
子 child(A child with an emphasized head 乛, body 丿 and two outstretched arms 一.)
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Vocabulary

教学 jiào xué teacher and student; education
屡教不改 lǚ jiào bù gǎi lit. not to change, despite repeated admonition; incorrigible; unrepentant
白莲教 Bái lián jiào White Lotus society
宋教仁 Sòng Jiào rén Song Jiaoren (1882-1913), politician of the revolutionary party involved in the 1911 Xinhai revolution, murdered in Shanghai in 1913
教会 jiāo huì to show; to teach
佛教 fó jiào Buddhism
教材 jiào cái teaching material
教授 jiào shòu professor; to instruct; to lecture on
教训 jiào xun a lesson; a moral; to chide sb; to lecture sb
宗教 zōng jiào religion
教导 jiào dǎo to instruct; to teach; guidance; teaching

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