Definify.com

Definition 2025

挑

挑

Translingual

Han character

挑 (radical 64 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手中一人 (QLMO), four-corner 52013, composition ⿰扌兆)

  1. a load carried on the shoulders
  2. to carry

References

  • KangXi: page 430, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12055
  • Dae Jaweon: page 780, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1872, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6311

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 挑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 挑
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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 挑 挑 挑
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial (聲) 透 (6) 透 (6) 定 (7)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93) 豪 (89) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division (等) IV I IV
Fanqie 吐彫切 土刀切 徒了切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰeu/ /tʰɑu/ /deuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰeu/ /tʰɑu/ /deuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰeu/ /tʰɑu/ /deuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰɛw/ /tʰaw/ /dɛwX/
Li
Rong		 /tʰeu/ /tʰɑu/ /deuX/
Wang
Li		 /tʰieu/ /tʰɑu/ /dieuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰieu/ /tʰɑu/ /dʱieuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tiāo tāo diào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 挑 挑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tiāo tiǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thew › ‹ dewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˤew/ /*lˤewʔ/
English scratch, stir up provoke

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 挑 挑 挑
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 16842 16871 16892
Phonetic
component		 兆 兆 兆
Rime
group		 宵 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 饕 祧 窕
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰaːw/ /*l̥ʰeːw/ /*l'eːwʔ/

Definitions

挑

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Japanese

Kanji

挑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. challenge
  2. contend for
  3. make love to

Readings

Korean

Hanja

挑 • ‎(do, jo) (hangeul 도, 조, revised do, jo, McCune-Reischauer to, cho, Yale to, co)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

挑 (vẹo, khêu, khều, khiêu, khểu, treo, trẹo)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Similar Results