jiao
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- Therefore, after 1949, due to restrictions on religious activities under martial law, the six temples held a collective jiao on the sixteenth day of the sixth lunar month.
Examples
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Before 1949, every temple held the rite of jiao at the deity's birthday (Li 1997:135).
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We hold a jiao for the anniversary of her death.
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"Fresh jellyfish, one jiao a bowl," an old woman cried.
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About this Qing-jiao-rou-si...
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She's using hua-jiao.
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The scale of the ritual for the City God has also been reduced to meet the government requirements that the banquet following the jiao not be lavish and that the quantity of sacrifices be diminished.
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Every village delimits its ritual boundaries annually by holding a jiao during which the rite of fangbing (dispatching spirit soldiers) is performed.
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Chen YX, Han F, Zhou Z, Zhang H, Jiao X, Zhang S, et al. 1991. Research on the intellectual development
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Another economist who has been trumpeting a long-term decline in U.S. growth is John Ross, Visiting Professor at Antai College of Economics and Management, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.
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A bowl of fresh jellyfish costs jiao at the local market.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jiao comes from the Chinese character 角, which originally means 'horn' or 'corner'. A helpful way to remember this money word is to think of one jiao as a 'corner' or small piece of a yuan — it is one-tenth of a yuan.