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Mythic Mandarin

跳 (tiào): meaning and stroke order

跳 (tiào) means to jump, to hop, to skip over, to bounce, to palpitate.

跳

Simplified
跳
Traditional
跳 (same form)
Pinyin
tiào

Stroke order of 跳

跳

  • tiào to jump; to hop
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 跳

  1. tiào
    • to jump
    • to hop
    • to skip over
    • to bounce
    • to palpitate

Radical and structure

跳
Radical 足 (Kangxi radical 157) · 13 strokes · 𧾷 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 跳

跳 in our stories

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  • 别的鱼都说：“太难了，我们跳不过去。”

    biéde yú dōu shuō tài nán le wǒmen tiào bú guòqu

    The other fish all said, "It's too hard. We can't jump over it."

    From the story The little carp's decision HSK 3

  • 她吓了一跳：“这个菜里有……夫妻？”

    tā xià le yí tiào zhè gè cài lǐ yǒu fūqī

    She jumps: "There's a … couple in this dish?"

    From the story "Husband and wife lung slices" HSK 3

  • 顾青吓了一跳，姑娘却很有礼貌地说：“先生别怕，我等一个会画画的人，已经等了一百年了。”

    Gù Qīng xià le yí tiào gūniang què hěn yǒu lǐmào de shuō xiānsheng bié pà wǒ děng yí gè huì huàhuà de rén yǐjīng děng le yìbǎi nián le

    Gu Qing jumped, but the girl said very politely, "Don't be afraid, sir. I have been waiting a hundred years for someone who can paint."

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

Stories using 跳

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).