(tiào) - to jump, to leap; to skip; to dance in Mandarin
tiàoTraditional: 跳
Translation
to jump, to leap; to skip; to dance
Word origin
跳 (tiào) means 'to jump, to leap'. It is a phono-semantic compound with 足 (foot) as the meaning radical and 兆 (zhào) as the phonetic component.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 足 (foot radical) + 兆 (zhào, phonetic)
Stroke order
跳
Examples
。
That cat jumped onto the table.
！
Let's go dancing!
。
His heart was beating fast.
兔。
That rabbit jumps very quickly.
椅。
He jumped down from the chair.
跳 (tiào) means to jump or leap. It covers physical jumping (跳起来, jump up; 跳过, jump over), dancing (跳舞, to dance), heartbeating (心跳, heartbeat), and skipping/skipping over (跳过这一页, skip this page). In sports: 跳绳 (jump rope), 跳高 (high jump), 跳远 (long jump). 跳 is also used metaphorically for sudden price changes (物价上跳, prices jump up) and for excitement (心跳加速, heart races).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 跳.
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