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挑拨

tiǎo bō

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

挑拨 (tiǎo bō) means "to incite disharmony; to instigate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 挑拨 means

1. to incite disharmony
2. to instigate

The characters in 挑拨

• 挑tiǎoto raise; to dig up; to poke
• 拨bōto push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate

Words starting with 挑拨

• 挑拨是非tiǎo bō shì fēito incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people; to tell tales…
• 挑拨离间tiǎo bō lí jiànto sow dissension (idiom); to drive a wedge between

Where 挑拨 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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