跳
tiào HSK3

jump

跳 tiào
to jump verb
to jump, leap, or hop by using the legs to push off the ground

当我说“跳”，你说“有多高？”

dāng wǒ shuō“ tiào”, nǐ shuō“ yǒu duō gāo?”

When I say “jump”, you say “how high?”

to palpitate verb
to throb or beat; to palpitate or vibrate, such as a heart beating or an eyelid twitching

他的心脏不跳了。

tā de xīn​zàng bù tiào le.

His heart stopped beating.

to skip over verb
to skip over; to bypass; to omit a step or level

接下来的四月，他决定跳过付款。

jiē​xià​lai de sì​yuè, tā jué​dìng tiào guò fù kuǎn.

The following April, he decided to skip a payment.

to bounce verbnoun
to spring up or bounce, as a ball or other object
to escape from
to escape from; to jump out of or break free from a situation

Frequency
Character
Written text
999th most common 161.9 per million
Movie subtitles
484th most common 301.7 per million appears in 56% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
253.3 per million appears in 44% of films
Written text
73.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+8DF3

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