挑
tiǎotiāotāo HSK4

carry on the shoulder, pick

挑 tiǎo frequency
to incite nounverb
to instigate; to stir up; to provoke; to provoke into conflict
to poke up adjective
to push or poke something up with a long tool; to lift up or raise; to lance a boil or prick with a needle
rising stroke
(bound form) a rising stroke in Chinese calligraphy; also called 提 tí
to pluck
technique for playing string instruments where the finger plucks or strikes outwards
to cross-stitch
type of embroidery involving picking up threads of the fabric to create patterns
挑 tiāo
to choose verb
to choose; to select; to pick out

你认为她会挑谁？

nǐ rèn​wéi tā huì tiāo shéi?

Who do you think she'll pick?

由我来挑餐厅。

yóu wǒ lái tiāo cān​tīng.

I get to pick the restaurant.

to nitpick adjectivenoun
to be fastidious; to find fault with; to pick on
to carry
to carry on a shoulder pole; to shoulder a load or responsibility
load
a load carried on a shoulder pole
classifier for loads
[for items carried on a shoulder pole]
挑 tāo
to pick
(literary) to pick; to choose; same as 掏 tāo

Cross-References

Same as

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,309th most common 95.2 per million
Movie subtitles
928th most common 121.1 per million appears in 41% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
50.4 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
41.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+6311

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)