挑 · tiāo
a load carried on the shoulders; to carry
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
a load carried on the shoulders; to carry
- Mandarin
- tiāo
- Cantonese
- tiu1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 挑 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 도
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6311
- Radical
- 手 · 64
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 挑
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 兆 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 兆聲
Line 3840 · ⿰扌兆 · 兆聲 · source reference 4411040
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- thew · 吐彫 反切 · #649
- Middle Chinese
- thaw · 土刀 反切 · #711
- Middle Chinese
- thewX · 土了 反切 · #1668
- Middle Chinese
- dewX · 徒了 反切 · #1673
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 5168 · thew = 效開四平蕭透 · thaw = 效開一平豪透 · thewX = 效開四上蕭透 · dewX = 效開四上蕭定
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- tiāo
- kCantonese
- tiu1
- kDefinition
- a load carried on the shoulders; to carry
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 64.6
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:1387
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- tiǎo,tiāo,táo,diào,tiáo,tiao 31872.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- tiāo 1138.170 · tiǎo 1141.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- tiāo 366.030 · tiǎo 366.130
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- tiāo(155) tiǎo(52)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- tiāo粵tiu1 tiǎo粵tiu1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 吐彫 土刀 土了 徒了
- Kangxi positions
- 0430.170
- Guangyun positions
- 144.18 156.44 296.55
- GSR references
- 1145o
- Cangjie
- QLMO
- Four-corner
- 5201.3