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教授

jiāo shòu

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

教授 (jiào shòu) means "professor". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 教授 means

1. to teach (a subject)

Other readings

教授 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• jiào shòuprofessor

The characters in 教授

• 教jiāoto teach; to instruct
• 授shòu(bound form) to confer; to give; (bound form) to teach; to instruct; (literary) to appoint

Example sentences

• 我是教授。
  I am a professor.
• 你是教授。
  You are a professor.
• 我是大学教授。
  I am a professor.
• 她是一名教授。
  She's a professor.
• 我哥哥是教授。
  My brother is a professor.
• 我丈夫是教授。
  My husband is a professor.

Words containing 教授

• 副教授fù jiào shòuassociate professor (university post)
• 客座教授kè zuò jiào shòuvisiting professor; guest professor
• 指导教授zhǐ dǎo jiào shòuadviser; advising professor
• 荣誉教授róng yù jiào shòuemeritus professor

Sounds the same

Read jiāo shòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 交售(of a farmer) to sell one's produce to the state as stipulated by government policy

Where 教授 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Professions & roles (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiāo shòu correctly.
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