tiāotiǎo HSK4

carry on the shoulder, pick

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

is a component form of .

Sound component
zhào omen

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartthewl̥ˤew scratch, stir up
dewXlˤewʔ provoke

說文解字

《說文》:“挑,撓也。从手,兆聲。一曰摷也。《國語》曰:‘郤至挑夭。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica