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jiao

/dʒjaʊ/

jiao noun: a currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan.

Noun

jiao (plural jiao)

  1. A currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Jiao

Jiao (plural Jiaos)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Jiao

Jiao

  1. A district of Yangquan, Shanxi, China.
    • The mean density of Phlebotomus chinensis was 6.3 sandflies per trap per night in Yangquan City from during the period from May to September, 2020, with the highest density observed in Jiaoqu District (12.6 sandflies per trap per night) and the lowest in Yuxian County (1.1 sandflies per trap per...[2022 November 23, Zhang Pei⁃jun et al., “2015—2020年山西省阳泉市犬源型内脏利什曼病 疫情调查 [Prevalence of mountain⁃zoonotic type visceral leishmaniasis in Yangquan City of Shanxi Province from 2015 to 2020]”, in...

Forms of jiao

Noun
pluraljiao
Proper noun
pluralJiaos

Plural of jiao: jiao

Origin of jiao

Borrowed from Mandarin 角 (jiǎo). Doublet of kak.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 焦 (Jiāo).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 郊 (Jiāo).

Phrases with jiao

Questions about jiao

What does jiao mean?
Jiao means a currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan.
What part of speech is jiao?
Jiao can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jiao?
Jiao is pronounced /dʒjaʊ/.
What is the plural of jiao?
The plural of jiao is jiao.

Words near jiao in the dictionary

  1. jiantizi
  2. Jianxi
  3. Jianyang
  4. jianzhi
  5. jianzi
  6. jiao
  7. jiao zi
  8. Jiaocheng
  9. jiaogulan
  10. Jiaohe
  11. Jiaojiang

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