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挑tiāo剔ti

  1. picky; fussy

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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挑
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to carry on a shoulder pole, to choose, to pick, to nitpick

Pinyin
tiāo
Strokes
9
Frequency
2886 of 2500
Words starting with 挑Words ending in 挑Anywhere in a word
剔
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to scrape the meat from bones, to pick (teeth etc), to weed out

Pinyin
tī
Strokes
10
Words starting with 剔Words ending in 剔Anywhere in a word