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交代 giao nộp, trao lại
Stroke order
交代 is written in 11 strokes across 2 characters.

- 交 — 6 strokes
- 代 — 5 strokes
Senses
- to transfer (duties to sb else)
- to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth)
- to explain; to give an account; to brief
- to confess; to account for oneself
- (jocular) to come to a bad end
Related words
交代 is pronounced jiāodài and means “giao nộp, trao lại”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 交代 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.