surname Jiao
to teach
religion / teaching / to make / to cause / to tell

= + : Joan of Arc joined an apocalyptic religious sect that taught her to dig her own grave. Wearing a mourning veil, she breaks the floor of the aorta's bathroom open using a sledgehammer.

教 character breakdown

filial piety or obedience / mourning apparel

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a mourning veil.

Xi Shi (xi) was breeding an egg (子) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4), and she even put a crown (⺹) on it (the crown is on top of the egg: 孝), so much she loved her little prince. Unfortunately the egg died, and thus Marie Curie put on her mourning veil (孝).
variant of 攴[pu1]

= 𠂉 + : Mnemonic symbol: the epitome of rapping and tapping is a sledge hammer. Petra pinguin (pu) forgot her key (𠂉) and know she's locked out of the space station (Ø1). At first she tries to open the lock with pliers (乂), but in the end she has no choice but to use the sledge hammer (攵).

Characters with 教 as component

Jiao river

Words with 教

church / chapel / CL:間|间[jian1]
professor / to instruct / to lecture on / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
Roman Catholic pope / Supreme Pontiff
to train / to educate / to bring up / to nurture / education / culture / upbringing / early conditioning
much obliged / thank you / to ask advice / (ironically or humorously) to experience / to taste
Zhaijiao sect of Buddhism
to excommunicate (from a church)
higher education / same as 高等教育[gao1 deng3 jiao4 yu4]
Yellow hat or Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism / also written 格魯派|格鲁派[Ge2 lu3 pai4]

Sentences with 教

zěn
me
néng
jia̅o
nǐ
men
hǎo
hǎo
ca̅o
liàn
ne