交换 jiāohuàn▶ intercambio

Stroke order

交换 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 交 — 6 strokes
• 换 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. to exchange
2. to swap
3. to switch (telecom)
4. commutative (math)
5. to commute

Related words

• 交往afiliarse a
• 交际comunicación
• 兑换intercambio
• 外交Relaciones Internacionales
• 打交道Lidiando con; Tratando con
• 交entregar

交换 is pronounced jiāohuàn and means “intercambio”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 交换 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.