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挑剔

tiāo ti

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

挑剔 (tiāo ti) means "picky; fussy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 挑剔 means

1. picky
2. fussy

The characters in 挑剔

• 挑tiǎoto raise; to dig up; to poke
• 剔tīto scrape the meat from bones; to pick (teeth etc); to weed out

Example sentences

• 我不挑剔。
  I'm not fussy.
• 汤姆相当挑剔。
  Tom is quite fussy.
• 你的想法简直无可挑剔。
  Your idea leaves nothing to be desired.
• 我不挑剔，我什幺都吃。
  I'm not picky. I'll eat anything.
• 他总是在挑剔别人的毛病。
  Tā zǒngshì zài tiāoti biéren de máobìng.
  He is always finding fault with others.
• 他对西装和领带的选择非常挑剔。
  Tā duì xīzhuāng hé lǐngdài de xuǎnzé fēicháng tiāoti.
  He's picky about suits and ties.

Words containing 挑剔

• 无可挑剔wú kě tiāo tiexcellent in every respect; flawless
• 没得挑剔méi dé tiāo tiexcellent in every respect; flawless

Where 挑剔 is taught

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

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