tiāo

  1. tiāo verb to choose; to select
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 拣选; as in 挑选 (CCD 1 '挑' 1, p. 1899; FE '挑' tiāo 2, p. 519; Guoyu '挑' tiāo v 1; XHZD '挑' 4, p. 746)
  2. tiǎo measure word a load
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: A measure word for loads carried on the shoulder (CCD 2 '挑' 3, p. 1899; XHZD '挑' 3, p. 746)
  3. tiāo noun a load carried on the shoulders
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD 2 '挑' 2, p. 1899; Unihan '挑'; XHZD '挑' 2, p. 746)
  4. tiāo verb to carry a load on the shoulders
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD 2 '挑' 1, p. 1899; FE '挑' tiāo 1, p. 519; Guoyu '挑' tiāo v 2; Unihan '挑'; XHZD '挑' a, p. 745)
  5. tiǎo verb to incite; to provoke
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '挑' tiǎo 4, p. 1903; FE '挑' tiǎo 1, p. 519; Guoyu '挑' tiǎo v 5; XHZD '挑' tiǎo 4, p. 748)
  6. tiǎo verb to pick up with a pole
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '挑' tiǎo 1, p. 1903; Guoyu '挑' tiǎo v 1; XHZD '挑' tiǎo 1, p. 748)
  7. tiǎo verb to prick; to poke
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '挑' tiǎo 2, p. 1903; Guoyu '挑' tiǎo v 3; XHZD '挑' tiǎo 2, p. 748)
  8. tiǎo noun cross-stitching
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD '挑' tiǎo 3, p. 1903; Guoyu '挑' tiǎo v 4; XHZD '挑' tiǎo 3, p. 748)
  9. tiǎo noun a rising tick
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: A character stroke in caligraphy (CCD '挑' tiǎo 5, p. 1903; Guoyu '挑' tiǎo n; XHZD '挑' tiǎo 5, p. 748)
  10. tiāo verb to find fault
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (CCD 1 '挑' 2, p. 1899)
  11. tiǎo verb to flirt /to tease
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 逗弄; as a variant of 誂 (FE '挑' tiǎo 2, p. 519; Guoyu '挑' tiǎo v 6)
  12. tāo adjective frivolous
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (FE '挑' tāo, p. 519)
  13. tiǎo verb to strut [a pipa]
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '挑' tiǎo v 5)
  14. tiāo verb tearing out or up; utpāṭana
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: utpāṭana, Japanese: chou, or: tou (BCSD '挑', p. 547; MW 'utpāṭana'; Unihan '挑')

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Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 3 Aśokarājāvadāna (Ayuwang) 阿育王傳 — count: 24
  • Scroll 91 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 15
  • Scroll 1 Ayuwang Xi Huai Mu Yinyuan Jing 阿育王息壞目因緣經 — count: 13
  • Scroll 4 Biographical Scripture of King Asoka 阿育王經 — count: 8 , has English translation
  • Scroll 3 Jātaka Stories of the Bodhisattva (Pusa Ben Xing Jing) 菩薩本行經 — count: 7
  • Scroll 20 Dharmaguputakavinaya (Si Fen Lu) 四分律 — count: 7 , has English translation
  • Scroll 33 Jing Lu Yi Xiang 經律異相 — count: 6
  • Scroll 150 Abhidharmamahāvibhāṣaśāstra (Apidamo Dapiposha Lun) 阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論 — count: 5
  • Scroll 6 The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations 勅修百丈清規 — count: 5
  • Scroll 4 Fu Fa Zang Yinyuan Zhuan 付法藏因緣傳 — count: 5

Collocations

  • 挑眼 (挑眼) 生挑眼吞 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 18
  • 挑目 (挑目) 截耳割舌挑目殺之 — Jātaka stories (Sheng Jing) 生經, Scroll 1 — count: 13
  • 挑钵 (挑缽) 便挑鉢於前叉手追 — Older Sutra of Parables 舊雜譬喻經, Scroll 1 — count: 10
  • 挑掷 (挑擲) 以足指挑擲著於此 — Guoqu Xianzai Yinguo Jing (Sūtra on Past and Present Causes and Effects) 過去現在因果經, Scroll 2 — count: 7
  • 挑耳 (挑耳) 聽畜挑耳物 — Mahīśāsakavinaya 彌沙塞部和醯五分律, Scroll 26 — count: 7
  • 便挑 (便挑) 便挑一眼著太子掌中 — Jātaka Stories of the Bodhisattva (Pusa Ben Xing Jing) 菩薩本行經, Scroll 3 — count: 5
  • 挑坏 (挑壞) 挑壞無量眾生法眼 — Daśacakrakṣitigarbha (Dasheng Da Ji Dizang Shi Lun Jing) 大乘大集地藏十輪經, Scroll 4 — count: 5
  • 挑两 (挑兩) 當以兩手相挑兩耳 — Li Shui Jing (Pacalā Sutta) 離睡經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
  • 指挑 (指挑) 以足指挑象 — Guoqu Xianzai Yinguo Jing (Sūtra on Past and Present Causes and Effects) 過去現在因果經, Scroll 2 — count: 4
  • 生挑 (生挑) 生挑眼吞 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 12 — count: 4