IDENTITY
跳tiàoto jump; to dance
HSK 2Top 500
CORE MEANING
to jump; to dance
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to jumpHSK2
- 2.to danceHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 足foot radical (zú)
- strokes
- 13
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰𧾷兆
- foot
- gives the sound tiào
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
跳舞tiàowǔto dance
跳绳tiàoshéngto jump rope
Graded examples
孩子们高兴得跳起来。Háizimen gāoxìng de tiào qǐlái.HSK3
The children jumped for joy.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 桃
LEARNING
Memory aid
Feet (足) reading the omen (兆) and leaping — jumping.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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