Why doesn't 教 end in"-う"?


Wiktionary says that 教, read as きょお means "to teach". However, I have read
that in dictionaries, al forms end in "-う" and not in "-お". Why is 教
different?

EDIT: Yes, it says that in English wiktionary. First, the reading they give is
"kyoo". Second, they define it as "1.to teach; teachings"




This is a serious misunderstanding, I'm afraid. きょう is just one of the several
readings ([読]{よ}み[方]{かた}) of 教. It's a so-called 'sound-reading' [音読み]{おんよみ},
which are Japanese renderings of Chinese speech. You actually misquoted this
particular reading; it's きょ **う** not きょ **お** , although that would be
pronounced the same way. But as far as Japanese verbs go, that's irrelevant;
you have to look for the 'explanatory reading' [訓読み]{くんよみ}, which gives you a
Japanese word that has (more or less) the same meaning as the original Chinese
word. Wiktionary has the following to say:

### Readings

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    Goon: きょう (kyō) < けう (keu)
    Kan’on: こう (kō) < かう (kau) (non-Jōyō reading)
    Kun: おしえる (教える, oshieru), おしえ (教え, oshie), おそわる (教わる, osowaru)
    
[/code]

As you can see, all of the multiple kun readings do end in -u. Only these
forms may be conjugated.

