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交换

jiāo huàn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 交換

交换 (jiāo huàn) means "to exchange". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 交换 means

1. to exchange
2. to swap
3. to switch (telecom)
4. commutative (math)
5. to commute

The characters in 交换

• 交jiāoto hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends…
• 换huànto exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute

Example sentences

• 交换。
  Swap.
• 我和他交换了邮票。
  Wǒ hé tā jiāohuàn le yóupiào.
  I exchanged stamps with him.
• 可以跟我交换房间吗?
  Kěyǐ gēn wǒ jiāohuàn fángjiān ma?
  Could you exchange rooms with me?
• 约翰喜欢和朋友交换邮票。
  Yuēhàn xǐhuan hé péngyou jiāohuàn yóupiào.
  John likes to trade stamps with his friends.
• 我想用汉语交换另一种语言.
  Wǒ xiǎng yòng Hànyǔ jiāohuàn lìngyī zhǒng yǔyán.
  I'd like to teach you Chinese in exchange for your teaching me another language.
• 我用一台照相机交换一把吉他。
  I swapped a camera for a guitar.

Words starting with 交换

• 交换机jiāo huàn jīswitch (telecommunications)
• 交换器jiāo huàn qì(telecom or network) switch
• 交换律jiāo huàn lǜ(math) commutative property
• 交换生jiāo huàn shēngexchange student
• 交换码jiāo huàn mǎinterchange code; computer coding for characters, including Chinese
• 交换代数jiāo huàn dài shù(math) commutative algebra
• 交换价值jiāo huàn jià zhíexchange value
• 交换网路jiāo huàn wǎng lùswitched network
• 交换代数学jiāo huàn dài shù xué(math) commutative algebra
• 交换以太网络jiāo huàn yǐ tài wǎng luòswitched Ethernet
• 交换虚电路jiāo huàn xū diàn lùSwitched Virtual Circuit; SVC

Words containing 交换

• 分组交换fēn zǔ jiāo huànpacket switching
• 物物交换wù wù jiāo huànbarter
• 等价交换děng jià jiāo huànequal-value exchange
• 离子交换lí zǐ jiāo huànion exchange
• 不等价交换bù děng jià jiāo huànexchange of unequal values
• 程控交换机chéng kòng jiāo huàn jīelectronic switching system (telecom.); stored program control exchange (SPC)
• 劳务交换láo wù jiāo huànlabor exchanges
• 电子数据交换diàn zǐ shù jù jiāo huànelectronic exchange of data
• 中文标准交换码Zhōng wén biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎCSIC, Chinese standard interchange code used from 1992
• 公共交换电话网gōng gòng jiāo huàn diàn huà wǎngpublic switched telephone network (PSTN)
• 公用交换电话网gōng yòng jiāo huàn diàn huà wǎng(Taiwan) public switched telephone network (PSTN)
• 国家标准中文交换码guó jiā biāo zhǔn Zhōng wén jiāo huàn mǎCNS 11643, Chinese character coding adopted in Taiwan, 1986-1992
• 美国资讯交换标准码Měi guó zī xùn jiāo huàn biāo zhǔn mǎASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• 通用汉字标准交换码Tōng yòng Hàn zì Biāo zhǔn Jiāo huàn mǎStandard Interchange Code for Generally Used Chinese Characters, a character encoding…

Where 交换 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Social Interaction & Communication (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiāo huàn correctly.
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