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跳

tiào

Old HSK 2 HSK 3.0 character level 2 Character

跳 (tiào) means "to jump; to hop; to skip over". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 2 in the old six-level list.

What 跳 means

1. to jump
2. to hop
3. to skip over
4. to bounce
5. to palpitate

Example sentences

• 跳。
  Jump.
• 跳！
  Jump!
• 别跳！
  Don't jump!
• 跳进来。
  Hop in.
• 我吓一跳。
  Wǒ xiàyītiào.
  I was shocked.
• 我想跳舞。
  I want to dance.

Words starting with 跳

• 跳舞tiào wǔto dance
• 跳跃tiào yuèto jump; to leap; to bound
• 跳动tiào dòngto throb; to pulse; to bounce
• 跳出tiào chūto jump out; fig. to appear suddenly
• 跳楼tiào lóuto jump from a building (to kill oneself); fig. to sell at a large discount…
• 跳进tiào jìnto plunge into; to jump into
• 跳槽tiào cáoto leave one's job to take up a position elsewhere
• 跳过tiào guòto jump over; to skip (a step, chapter etc)
• 跳水tiào shuǐto dive (into water); (sports) diving; to commit suicide by jumping into water
• 跳蚤tiào zaoflea
• 跳板tiào bǎnspringboard; jumping-off point; gangplank
• 跳绳tiào shéngto jump rope; to skip; a skipping rope; a jump rope
• 跳蚤市场tiào zǎo shì chǎngflea market
• 跳高tiào gāo(athletics) high jump
• 跳伞tiào sǎnto parachute; to bail out; parachute jumping
• 跳远tiào yuǎnlong jump (athletics)
• 跳级tiào jíto jump a year (at college)
• 跳价tiào jiàprice jump
• 跳弹tiào dànricochet
• 跳河tiào héto drown oneself by jumping into the river
• 跳票tiào piào(finance) (of a check) to bounce; (fig.) (of a product etc) to fail to be released on…
• 跳脱tiào tuō(Taiwan) to break free of (outmoded ways of thinking etc); to move beyond; to transcend
• 跳台tiào táidiving platform; diving tower; landing platform
• 跳蛋tiào dànlove egg (sex toy)

Words containing 跳

• 心跳xīn tiàoheartbeat; pulse
• 吓一跳xià yī tiàostartled; to frighten; scared out of one's skin
• 蹦蹦跳跳bèng bèng tiào tiàobouncing and vivacious
• 心惊肉跳xīn jīng ròu tiàolit. heart alarmed, body leaping (idiom); fear and trepidation in the face of disaster
• 蹦跳bèng tiàoto hop; to jump
• 活蹦乱跳huó bèng luàn tiàoto leap and frisk about (idiom); lively; healthy and active
• 虎跳峡Hǔ tiào XiáTiger Leaping Gorge on the Jinsha River 金沙江
• 暴跳如雷bào tiào rú léi(idiom) to stamp with fury; to fly into a rage
• 弹跳tán tiàoto bounce; to jump; to leap
• 起跳qǐ tiào(athletics) to take off (at the start of a jump); (of price, salary etc) to start…
• 眼跳yǎn tiàotwitching of eye
• 弹跳板tán tiào bǎnspringboard
• 波比跳bō bǐ tiàoburpee (loanword)
• 字节跳动Zì jié Tiào dòngByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012
• 立定跳远lì dìng tiào yuǎnstanding long jump
• 高空弹跳gāo kōng tán tiàobungee jumping (Tw)
• 惊跳jīng tiàoto shy (away); to give a start
• 单脚跳dān jiǎo tiàoto hop; to jump on one leg
• 独脚跳dú jiǎo tiàoto jump on one foot; to hop
• 心跳过缓xīn tiào guò huǎnbradycardia
• 乱跳luàn tiàoto jump about; (of the heart) to beat wildly
• 佛跳墙fó tiào qiánglit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian…
• 狗急跳墙gǒu jí tiào qiánga cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom); to be driven to desperate action
• 鸡飞狗跳jī fēi gǒu tiàolit. chickens flying and dogs jumping (idiom); fig. in chaos; in disarray

Characters that look like 跳

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

• 赋fùpoetic essay; taxation; to bestow on
• 跪guìto kneel
• 棘jíthorns
• 跺duòto stamp one's feet
• 跛bǒto limp; lame; crippled
• 酩mǐngused in 酩酊

Sounds the same

Read tiào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 眺to gaze into the distance
• 覜have an audience
• 粜to sell (grain)

Where 跳 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 2 Characters · Set 16 (HSK 2), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 2 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 tiào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.