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刁

diāo

Character

What 刁 means

1. artful
2. wicked

Other readings

刁 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Diāosurname Diao

Example sentences

• 澳洲的考试方式并不是为了刁难受测者。
  àozhōu de kǎoshì fāngshì bìngbù shì wèile diāonàn shòu cè zhě.
  The method used for tests in Australia is not meant to be difficult for the people sitting them.
• 「pecan」是一个发音比较刁钻的词，有好几种不同的发音方式。
  "Pecan" is one of those tricky words that gets pronounced in several different ways.

Words starting with 刁

• 刁难diāo nànto be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult; Taiwan pr. diāo nán
• 刁民diāo mín(derogatory) unruly people
• 刁钻diāo zuāncrafty; tricky
• 刁妇diāo fùshrew; virago
• 刁悍diāo hàncunning and fierce
• 刁斗diāo dǒusoldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night…
• 刁滑diāo huáartful; crafty
• 刁蛮diāo máncrafty and unruly

Words containing 刁

• 放刁fàng diāoto act wickedly; to bully; to make life difficult for sb by unreasonable actions
• 石刁柏shí diāo bǎiasparagus
• 百般刁难bǎi bān diāo nàn(idiom) to put up innumerable obstacles; to create all kinds of difficulties

Sounds the same

Read diāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 雕to carve; to engrave; shrewd
• 叼to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)
• 貂sable or marten (genus Martes)
• 凋withered
• 碉rock cave (archaic)
• 鲷porgy; pagrus major
• 蛁Pomponia maculatiocollis
• 琱to engrave gems
• 汈(used in place names)