HSK 6 · Nature

杂交 zájiāo “to hybridise” in Chinese

Traditional 雜交

What 杂交 means

  1. to hybridise
  2. to crossbreed
  3. hybrid

How to say 杂交

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale杂zá2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale交jiāo1st tone, high and level

杂交 in a sentence

  1. 科学家用杂交的方法培育了新品种的水稻。

    Kēxuéjiā yòng zájiāo de fāngfǎ péiyù le xīn pǐnzhǒng de shuǐdào.

    Scientists bred a new variety of rice through crossbreeding.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这条狗是杂交的。

    Zhè tiáo gǒu shì zájiāo de.

    This dog is a crossbreed.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 杂交 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 杂 (zá) with each of its parts in a different colour
杂zámixed
  • 九nine · jiǔ
  • 木tree · mù
The character 交 (jiāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
交jiāoto hand over; to deliver; to pay
  • 六six · liù
  • 乂to govern · yì

Memory aidDrawn from a person with crossed legs: to cross, to hand over.

How to write 杂交

杂 6 strokes · 交 6 strokes

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杂交 (zájiāo) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 杂交 (zájiāo). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 杂交

Words with 杂

复杂fùzá · complicated杂志zázhì · magazine夹杂jiāzá · to be mixed with嘈杂cáozá · noisy杂技zájì · acrobatics

Words with 交

公交车gōngjiāochē · public transport vehicle交jiāo · to hand over交流jiāoliú · to exchange交通jiāotōng · traffic交往jiāowǎng · to associate with交换jiāohuàn · to exchange交际jiāojì · social interaction外交wàijiāo · diplomacy打交道dǎjiāodào · to come into contact with交代jiāodài · to explain

More words: Nature & Environment

翼yì · wing蕴藏yùncáng · to hold in store宇宙yǔzhòu · universe灾难zāinàn · disaster噪音zàoyīn · noise照耀zhàoyào · to shine on沼泽zhǎozé · swamp蒸发zhēngfā · to evaporate

FAQs

杂交 (zájiāo) means “to hybridise” or “to crossbreed”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zájiāo: zá with a 2nd tone, then jiāo with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 杂交 is written 雜交. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zajiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 杂交 from the suggestions. Typing zajiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
杂交 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.