挑
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Translingual
Han character
挑 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手中一人 (QLMO), four-corner 52013, composition ⿰扌兆)
Derived characters
- 𨃑
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 430, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12055
- Dae Jaweon: page 780, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1872, character 4
- Unihan data for U+6311
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
挑 | |
|---|---|---|
| alternative forms | 窕 provoke 㨄 provoke 𢬹 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 挑 |
|---|
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
Characters in the same phonetic series (兆) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 挑 | *l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ |
| 洮 | *l̥ʰaːw, *l'aːw, *lew |
| 桃 | *l'aːw |
| 逃 | *l'aːw |
| 咷 | *l'aːw, *l̥ʰeːws |
| 鼗 | *l'aːw |
| 鞉 | *l'aːw |
| 駣 | *l'aːw, *l'aːwʔ, *l'aːws, *l'ewʔ |
| 𣂁 | *sl̥ʰew |
| 脁 | *l̥ʰews |
| 晁 | *l'ew |
| 兆 | *l'ewʔ |
| 旐 | *l'ewʔ |
| 狣 | *l'ewʔ |
| 鮡 | *l'ewʔ, *l'eːw |
| 垗 | *l'ewʔ |
| 姚 | *lew |
| 珧 | *lew |
| 銚 | *lew, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːws |
| 恌 | *lew, *l̥ʰeːw |
| 烑 | *lew |
| 餆 | *lew |
| 筄 | *lews |
| 艞 | *lews |
| 佻 | *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːw |
| 祧 | *l̥ʰeːw |
| 朓 | *l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːwʔ |
| 庣 | *l̥ʰeːw |
| 趒 | *l̥ʰeːw, *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw |
| 聎 | *l̥ʰeːw |
| 眺 | *l̥ʰeːws |
| 覜 | *l̥ʰeːws |
| 頫 | *l̥ʰeːws, *poʔ |
| 絩 | *l̥ʰeːws |
| 跳 | *l̥ʰeːws, *l'eːw |
| 窕 | *l'eːwʔ |
| 誂 | *l'eːwʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l̥ʰaːw, *l̥ʰeːw, *l'eːwʔ): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 兆 (OC *l'ewʔ).
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): tiu1
- Hakka
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thiau / thio
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 1thiau
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: tiāo
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄠ
- Tongyong Pinyin: tiao
- Wade–Giles: tʻiao1
- Yale: tyāu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tiau
- Palladius: тяо (tjao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: tiu1
- Yale: tīu
- Cantonese Pinyin: tiu1
- Guangdong Romanization: tiu1
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰiːu̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiâu
- Hakka Romanization System: tiauˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: tiau1
- Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯au̯²⁴/
- (Meixian)
- Guangdong: tiau1
- Sinological IPA: /tʰiau⁴⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiau / thio
- Tâi-lô: thiau / thio
- Phofsit Daibuun: tiaw, tioy
- IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiau⁴⁴/, /tʰio⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiau³³/, /tʰio³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiau⁴⁴/, /tʰio⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /tʰiau⁴⁴/, /tʰio⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiau⁴⁴/, /tʰiɤ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
Note:
- thiau - literary;
- thio - vernacular.
- Middle Chinese: thew
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*l̥ˤew/
- (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰeːw/
Definitions
挑
- to pick; to select; to choose
- to nitpick
- to carry (something) on a shoulder pole
- (Chinese calligraphy) a rising stroke (㇀)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 選 (“to choose”) [map]
Coordinate terms
- (basic character strokes) 點 / 点 (diǎn), 橫 / 横, 豎 / 竖 (shù), 提, 捺 (nà), 撇, 折, 鉤 / 钩 (gōu), 彎 / 弯 (wān), 斜
Compounds
- 一肩挑
- 剃頭挑子 / 剃头挑子
- 千挑百選 / 千挑百选
- 千挑萬選 / 千挑万选
- 單挑 / 单挑
- 大挑
- 扁挑
- 挑三揀四 / 挑三拣四
- 挑么挑六
- 挑刺兒 / 挑刺儿 (tiāocìr)
- 挑剔
- 挑包策馬 / 挑包策马
- 挑取
- 挑嘴
- 挑土
- 挑大梁
- 挑夫 (tiāofū)
- 挑妻窩夫 / 挑妻窝夫
- 挑子 (tiāozi)
- 挑字眼兒 / 挑字眼儿
- 挑挖
- 挑揀 / 挑拣 (tiāojiǎn)
- 挑搭
- 挑撿 / 挑捡
- 挑擔 / 挑担 (tiāodàn)
- 挑擔子 / 挑担子 (tiāodànzi)
- 挑槽
- 挑正梁
- 挑毛揀刺 / 挑毛拣刺
- 挑毛病
- 挑牙
- 挑盡 / 挑尽
- 挑眼
- 挑空
- 挑肥揀瘦 / 挑肥拣瘦 (tiāoféijiǎnshòu)
- 挑腳 / 挑脚
- 挑腳漢 / 挑脚汉
- 挑試 / 挑试
- 挑選 / 挑选 (tiāoxuǎn)
- 挑重擔 / 挑重担 (tiāozhòngdàn)
- 挑錢 / 挑钱
- 挑閃 / 挑闪
- 挑雪填井
- 挑頭 / 挑头
- 挑食 (tiāoshí)
- 挑飭 / 挑饬
- 挑高
- 挑鼻子
- 揭挑
- 揀衣挑食 / 拣衣挑食
- 撂挑子 (liàotiāozi)
- 文武挑兒 / 文武挑儿
- 獨挑 / 独挑
- 百裡挑一 / 百里挑一 (bǎilǐtiāoyī)
- 精挑細選 / 精挑细选 (jīngtiāoxìxuǎn)
- 肩挑背負 / 肩挑背负
- 蛋中挑刺
- 針挑刀挖 / 针挑刀挖
- 長挑 / 长挑
- 頭挑 / 头挑
- 高挑子
Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: tiǎo
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄠˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: tiǎo
- Wade–Giles: tʻiao3
- Yale: tyǎu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: teau
- Palladius: тяо (tjao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: tiu1
- Yale: tīu
- Cantonese Pinyin: tiu1
- Guangdong Romanization: tiu1
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰiːu̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thiâu
- Hakka Romanization System: tiauˊ
- Hagfa Pinyim: tiau1
- Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯au̯²⁴/
- (Meixian)
- Guangdong: tiau3 / tiau1
- Sinological IPA: /tʰiau³¹/, /tʰiau⁴⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiau / thio
- Tâi-lô: thiau / thio
- Phofsit Daibuun: tiaw, tioy
- IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiau⁴⁴/, /tʰio⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiau³³/, /tʰio³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiau⁴⁴/, /tʰio⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /tʰiau⁴⁴/, /tʰio⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiau⁴⁴/, /tʰiɤ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
Note:
- thiau - literary;
- thio - vernacular.
- Middle Chinese: dewX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤewʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*l'eːwʔ/
Definitions
挑
Compounds
- 孤燈挑盡 / 孤灯挑尽
- 挑三窩四 / 挑三窝四
- 挑三豁四
- 挑刀
- 挑動 / 挑动 (tiǎodòng)
- 挑唆 (tiǎosuō)
- 挑大拇哥
- 挑弄 (tiǎonòng)
- 挑戰 / 挑战 (tiǎozhàn)
- 挑戰書 / 挑战书
- 挑戰者深淵 / 挑战者深渊 (Tiǎozhànzhě Shēnyuān)
- 挑撥 / 挑拨 (tiǎobō)
- 挑撥是非 / 挑拨是非
- 挑撥離間 / 挑拨离间 (tiǎobōlíjiàn)
- 挑斜岔兒 / 挑斜岔儿
- 挑明
- 挑機 / 挑机
- 挑泛
- 挑燈 / 挑灯 (tiǎodēng)
- 挑燈夜戰 / 挑灯夜战 (tiǎodēngyèzhàn)
- 挑燈撥火 / 挑灯拨火
- 挑牙料脣 / 挑牙料唇
- 挑脣料嘴 / 挑唇料嘴
- 挑花
- 挑花法
- 挑花繃子 / 挑花绷子
- 挑茶斡刺
- 挑趣
- 挑逗 (tiǎodòu)
- 挑釁 / 挑衅 (tiǎoxìn)
- 挑頭子 / 挑头子
- 挑鬥 / 挑斗 (tiǎodòu)
- 搬挑
- 琴心相挑
- 目挑心招
Pronunciation 3
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: tāo
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄠ
- Tongyong Pinyin: tao
- Wade–Giles: tʻao1
- Yale: tāu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tau
- Palladius: тао (tao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: táo
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄠˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: táo
- Wade–Giles: tʻao2
- Yale: táu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taur
- Palladius: тао (tao)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰɑʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Middle Chinese: thaw
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰaːw/
Definitions
挑
Japanese
Kanji
挑
Readings
From Middle Chinese 挑 (MC dewX); compare Mandarin 挑 (tiǎo):
- Go-on: じょう (jō)←でう (deu, historical)
- Kan-on: ちょう (chō, Jōyō)←てう (teu, historical)
From Middle Chinese 挑 (MC thew); compare Mandarin 挑 (tiāo):
From Middle Chinese 挑 (MC thaw); compare Mandarin 挑 (tāo):
- Go-on: とう (tō)←たう (tau, historical)
- Kan-on: とう (tō)←たう (tau, historical)
From native Japanese roots:
- Kun: いどむ (idomu, 挑む, Jōyō)、えらぶ (erabu, 挑ぶ)、かかげる (kakageru, 挑げる)、になう (ninau, 挑う)←になふ (ninafu, 挑ふ, historical)、はねる (haneru, 挑ねる)
Compounds
Korean
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 挑 (MC thew|thaw|dewX).
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [to̞]
- Phonetic hangul: [도]
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [t͡ɕo̞]
- Phonetic hangul: [조]
Hanja
挑 (eumhun 돋울 도 (dodul do))
挑 (eumhun 기릴 조 (giril jo))
Compounds
References
- 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]
- Zonmal.com Hanja Dictionary (존말닷컴 한자사전／漢字辭典) (2002-2005). [2]
Vietnamese
Han character
挑: Hán Nôm readings: vẹo, khêu, khều, khiêu, khểu, treo, trẹo
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