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教授

jiào shòu 4–4

professor; to instruct; to lecture on

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
教 · 授
Syllables
2
jiào shòu
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,612

Part of speech: n,v

Character by character

  • 教jiào11 strokesHSK 1teach, class
  • 授shòu11 strokesHSK 4give to, transmit; confer

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我是教授。

    Wǒ shì jiào shòu

    I am a professor.

  • 你是教授。

    Nǐ shì jiào shòu

    You are a professor.

  • 她是一名教授。

    Tā shì yī míng jiào shòu

    She's a professor.

  • 我是大学教授。

    Wǒ shì dà xué jiào shòu

    I am a professor.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 教授. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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