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挑

tiāo, tiǎo

carry on the shoulder, pick

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 兆 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

兆 sound component

兆  Sound component

zhào

  

omen

Evolution

挑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
挑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

挑  

tiāo

a load carried on the shoulders; to carry; to carry on a shoulder pole; to choose; to pick; to nitpick

挑  

tiǎo

to raise; to dig up; to poke; to prick; to incite; to stir up

Most common words with 挑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

挑战

to challenge

挑

to raise

挑选

to choose

挑起

to provoke

挑衅

to provoke

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ˤew

thew

tiāo

scratch, stir up

*lˤewʔ

dewX

tiǎo

provoke


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 40.7336% of movies

928th most common character in movies

1309th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6311

Shuowen

“挑，撓也。从手，兆聲。一曰摷也。《國語》曰：‘郤至挑夭。’”


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