# 校 — School

Frequency rank 288 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 土 (Dirt), less common than 質 (Quality).

- On’yomi: こう
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 木 Tree (Kangxi 75)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 1
- Strokes: 10

Father chalks the day's characters up the Tree trunk and tests each kid at the gate; whoever stumbles goes into the barrel with the Lid waxed down and chants strokes in the dark until he can recite the whole trunk.

In words:

- 校 こう — -school;proof
- 校長 こうちょう — headmaster
- 学校 がっこう — school

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