Definition of Chiao

1. a monetary unit of China [n CHIAO]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiao

chi-square test
chi-square tests
chi chi men
chi kung
chi sequence
chi site
chi squared
chi structure
chia
chiack
chiacked
chiacking
chiacks
chiantis
chiao (current term)
chiari-frommel syndrome
chiarivari
chiaro-oscuro
chiaro-oscuros
chiaroscuri
chiaroscurist
chiaroscurists
chiaroscuro
chiaroscuroed
chiaroscuros
chias
chiasm
chiasma
chiasma opticum

Literary usage of Chiao

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vocabulary and Hand-book of the Chinese Language: Romanized in the Mandarin by Justus Doolittle (1872)
"^j!J| -^ tan wa tzu ; to put on '• &! •?• 'chuan wa tzu, ^r Ш -f cho wa tzu. Stocks, f.^ ku; /or the feet, JJJ $fl chiao chia, ..."

2. The Russo-Japanese War: Reports from British Officers Attached to the by Great Britain War Office. General Staff, Great Britain War Office (1908)
"Operations from the 16th June to the 3rd August 1904, including the Battle of Ta-shih-chiao. REPORT by Lieut-Colonel AL HALDANE, DSO, General Staff. ..."

3. The River of Golden Sand: Being the Narrative of a Journey Through China and by William [John] Gill, Edward Colborne Barber, Henry Yule (1883)
"... Flat'—Ching-Chi- Hsien—Hua-Ling-Fing—River of Ta-Chien-Lu—Bridge swept , away—Lu- Ting- chiao and its Iron Suspension bridge—Dominoes —Character of ..."

4. With the Russians in Manchuria by Maurice Baring (1906)
"CHAPTER IV LIAOYANG TO TA-SHI-chiao T ARRIVED at Liaoyang on the 22nd of June. •*• Liaoyang is only fifty miles from Mukden, and the journey took nearly ..."

5. Fir-flower Tablets by Amy Lowell (1921)
"SUNG TO THE AIR: "THE WANDERER" (COMPOSED BY su wu IN THE TIME OF THE EMPEROR WU OF HAN) BY MENG chiao THREAD from the hands of a doting mother Worked into ..."

6. The Back Blocks of China: A Narrative of Experiences Among the Chinese by Robert Logan Jack (1904)
"... wen—The Yung-Chang Plain—Po-Lo Ti—Pan chiao—Cotton-weaving and dyeing—A new fashion in tombs—Yung-Chang— Foreign trade—Foot-binding—Where is Sin Kai ? ..."

7. Northern China, the Valley of the Blue River, Korea by Claudius Madrolle (1912)
"Khan who, in 1227, placed the district in the sphere of the chiao Chou. Suppressed in 1265, and incorporated in the territories of the two districts Yeh ..."

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