Zi Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Person (rén) Jiao Kangxi stroke count: 15 Page 119, Entry 19 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced jiao. Collection of Characters (Yupian): Jiao means to walk. Additionally, in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced jiao. Jiao-xing means to covet that which one does not deserve. Master Mao says: For the term jiao-xing, the character was originally written as jiao. Later generations substituted it with the jiao from the word bian-jiao (border), and this error has been perpetuated for a long time.