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

military instructor
religious belief / to practice a faith / to be religious
archbishop / primate (of a church) / metropolitan
much obliged / thank you / to ask advice / (ironically or humorously) to experience / to taste
to teach class / to lecture
course of study / teaching module at university / tutorial
teaching and research office
teaching method / pedagogics
hack teacher / pedagogue
I have been enlightened by your teaching (humble)
culture and education

Sentences with 教

zěn
me
néng
jia̅o
nǐ
men
hǎo
hǎo
ca̅o
liàn
ne