Chinese Character Wiki
跳

tiào

jump

Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 兆 represents the sound.

Components
足 meaning component

足  Meaning component

zú, jù

  

foot

兆 sound component

兆  Sound component

zhào

  

omen

Evolution

跳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
跳 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

跳  

tiào

jump, leap, vault, bounce; dance; to jump; to hop; to skip over; to bounce; to palpitate

Most common words with 跳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

跳

to jump

跳舞

to dance

心跳

heartbeat

跳水

(sports) diving

跳跃

to jump

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤew

dew

tiào

jump


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 56.3031% of movies

484th most common character in movies

999th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8DF3

Shuowen

“跳，蹶也。从足，兆聲。一曰躍也。”


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