挑剔 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

tiāoti HSK7

picky

tiāo, tiǎo carry on the shoulder, pick

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 兆 represents the sound.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

兆 Sound component

zhào omen

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	thew	l̥ˤew	scratch, stir up
	dewX	lˤewʔ	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
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

tī pick out

Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 易 represents the sound.

Components

刂 Meaning component

dāo knife

刂 is a component form of 刀.

易 Sound component

yì easy

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	thek	l̥ ˤek	cut (v.)
	thejH	l̥ ˤek-s	shave
Zhengzhang		l̥ʰeːɡ
Unicode	tek

說文解字

解骨也。从刀易聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

挑 tiāo, tiǎo carry on the shoulder, pick

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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剔 tī pick out

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tiāo, tiǎo carry on the shoulder, pick

tī pick out