jiao
/dʒaʊ
/noun (plural same)
A monetary unit of China, equal to one tenth of a yuan.The latter is 1 yuan or maybe only 5 jiao cheaper....
- After paying my two jiao, I started walking up the stairs to the gents' section.
- This story from two years ago says ‘as little as two jiao.’
Origin
From Chinese jiǎo.
- lungless salamander
- lungworm
- lungwort
- step forward
- step function
- stephanotis
- Stephen
- Stephenson, George
- Stephen, St
- step in
- step into someone's shoes
- step into the breach
- stepladder
- step-like
- stepmom
- stepmother
- stepmum
- stepney
- step on it (or step on the gas)
- step on someone's toes
- step out
- step out of line
- step out on
- step-parent
- step-parenthood