Where 跳 comes from
foot
- Meaning part
- 足 (“sufficient”)
- Sound part
- 兆 (“omen”)
How to write 跳 (tiào, “to jump”)
跳 (tiào), an HSK 2 character, means “to jump”, “to hop” and “to skip over”. It is HSK 2 in the 2025 syllabus, down from level 3 in the 2021 standard. It pairs a meaning part, 足 (“sufficient”), with a sound part, 兆 (“omen”). On its own it is an HSK 3 word; it also forms 跳舞 (“to dance”), 跳高 (“(athletics) high jump”) and 跳远 (“long jump (athletics)”). Japanese reads it -to-bi, “hop”, as a JLPT N1 kanji.
- Pinyin
- tiào
- Strokes
- 13
- HSK
- 2
- Radical
- 足 (“sufficient”)
Stroke by stroke
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As a left-right character it splits into 足 (“sufficient”, the radical), strokes 1–7; 兆 (“omen”), strokes 8–13, written the left part first.
- top leftdownwards
- top leftrightwards → downwards
- leftrightwards
- leftdownwards
- Dotlefta dot
- leftdownwards
- bottom leftrightwards
- topdownwards → down and left
- centerdown and right
- centerup and right
- topdownwards → rightwards
- top rightdown and right → down and left
- rightdown and right
Japanese and Chinese
The two models differ in shape, so our comparison does not claim an order; compare the numbered frames yourself (13 strokes in Japanese, 13 strokes in Chinese).
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Pinyin and meaning
| Pinyin | Meanings | Traditional | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| tiào fourth tone | to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate | — | 跳舞 跳高 跳远 跳水 |
- HSK 2025 syllabus
- level 2
- 2021 standard
- level 3
- HSK 2.0
- in a level 2 word
- Words with it
- 88 in CC-CEDICT
Words with 跳
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 跳 | tiào | to jump; to hop HSK 3 |
| 跳舞 | tiàowǔ | to dance HSK 2 |
| 跳高 | tiàogāo | (athletics) high jump HSK 5 |
| 跳远 跳遠 | tiàoyuǎn | long jump (athletics) HSK 5 |
| 跳水 | tiàoshuǐ | to dive (into water); (sports) diving HSK 6 |
| 跳动 跳動 | tiàodòng | to throb; to pulse HSK 7-9 |
| 跳伞 跳傘 | tiàosǎn | to parachute; to bail out HSK 7-9 |
| 跳跃 跳躍 | tiàoyuè | to jump; to leap HSK 7-9 |
| 跳槽 | tiàocáo | to leave one's job to take up a position elsewhere HSK 7-9 |
| 起跳 | qǐtiào | (athletics) to take off (at the start of a jump); to start |
HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).
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