HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Everyday Verbs

跳 tiào “to jump” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 跳 means

  1. to jump
  2. to leap
  3. to skip
  4. to hop
  5. to skip over
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to bounce
  • to palpitate

How to say 跳

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale跳tiào4th tone, falling

跳 in a sentence

  1. 您能跳多高？

    Nín néng tiào duō gāo?

    How high can you jump?

    Sentence #471316 from Tatoeba

  2. 他跳上了桌子。

    Tā tiào shàng le zhuōzi.

    He jumped onto the table.

    Sentence #713161 from Tatoeba

  3. 我高兴得跳了起来。

    Wǒ gāoxìng de tiào le qǐlai.

    I jumped for joy.

    Sentence #400069 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 跳 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 跳 (tiào) with each of its parts in a different colour
跳tiàoto jump
  • 足foot · zúMeaning part
  • 兆omen · zhàoSound part

足 hints at the meaning (foot); 兆 (zhào) hints at the sound. Compare it with tiào.

How to write 跳

跳 13 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

跳 (tiào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 跳 (tiào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 跳

Words with 跳

跳舞tiàowǔ · to dance跳跃tiàoyuè · to jump

More words: Everyday Verbs

游yóu · to swim起qǐ · to rise得到dédào · to get受shòu · to receive收到shōudào · to receive养yǎng · to raise (animals)爬pá · to climb练liàn · to practise

FAQs

跳 (tiào) means “to jump” or “to leap”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it tiào: tiào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 跳 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 跳 from the suggestions. Typing tiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
跳 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.