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叼

diāo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

叼 (diāo) means "to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 叼 means

1. to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)

Example sentences

• 母鸟叼来虫子喂幼鸟。
  Mǔ niǎo diāo lái chóngzi wèi yòu niǎo.
  The mother bird brought worms for her young ones.
• 爷爷叼着烟管跟我说话。
  Grandfather talked to me with a pipe in his mouth.
• 汤姆在嘴里叼了根儿烟。
  Tom had a cigar in his mouth.
• 我看到了一条狗。狗嘴里叼着一块肉。
  Wǒ kàn dào le yī tiáo gǒu. gǒu zuǐlǐ diāo zhe yīkuài ròu.
  I saw a dog. The dog held a piece of meat in its mouth.

Words starting with 叼

• 叼盘diāo pán(of a dog) to hold a frisbee in its mouth; (fig.) derogatory nickname given to Hu Xijin…

Words containing 叼

• 胡叼盘Hú Diāo pánderogatory nickname given to Hu Xijin 胡锡进

Characters that look like 叼

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 叨dāogarrulous

Sounds the same

Read diāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 雕to carve; to engrave; shrewd
• 刁artful; wicked
• 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)

Where 叼 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · diàn–tiáo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read diāo correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.