挑 (tiāo): meaning and stroke order
挑 (tiāo) means to carry on a shoulder pole, to choose, to pick, to nitpick, to raise, to dig up, to poke.
挑
- Simplified
- 挑
- Traditional
- 挑 (same form)
- Pinyin
- tiāo · tiǎo
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Stroke order of 挑
挑
- tiāo to carry on a shoulder pole; to choose
- tiǎo to raise; to dig up
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 挑
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tiāo
- to carry on a shoulder pole
- to choose
- to pick
- to nitpick
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tiǎo
- to raise
- to dig up
- to poke
- to prick
- to incite
- to stir up
Radical and structure
- 挑
- Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 9 strokes · 扌 on the left, 兆 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 挑
- 挑战 tiǎo zhàn to challenge; challenge
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).