HSK 6 · Adjectives

挺拔 tǐngbá “tall and straight” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 挺拔 means

  1. tall and straight
  2. towering

How to say 挺拔

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale挺tǐng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale拔bá2nd tone, rising

挺拔 in a sentence

  1. 山上长着挺拔的松树。

    Shān shàng zhǎng zhe tǐngbá de sōngshù.

    Tall, straight pine trees grow on the mountain.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 他个子高，身材挺拔。

    Tā gèzi gāo, shēncái tǐngbá.

    He’s tall and stands very straight.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 挺拔 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 挺 (tǐng) with each of its parts in a different colour
挺tǐngstraight
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 廷courtyard · tíngSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 廷 (tíng) hints at the sound. Compare it with tǐng.

The character 拔 (bá) with each of its parts in a different colour
拔báto pull up
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 犮to pull up · báSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 犮 (bá) hints at the sound. Compare it with bá.

How to write 挺拔

挺 9 strokes · 拔 8 strokes

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

Words related to 挺拔

Words with 挺

挺tǐng · quite

Words with 拔

海拔hǎibá · height above sea level选拔xuǎnbá · to select (the best)提拔tíbá · to promote (to a higher post)拔苗助长bámiáozhùzhǎng · to spoil things through haste (lit. pull shoots to help growth)

More words: Adjectives

特定tèdìng · specific天生tiānshēng · innate挑剔tiāoti · fussy体面tǐmiàn · respectable通俗tōngsú · popular通用tōngyòng · in common use妥当tuǒdang · appropriate妥善tuǒshàn · appropriate

FAQs

挺拔 (tǐngbá) means “tall and straight” or “towering”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tǐngbá: tǐng with a 3rd tone, then bá with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 挺拔 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tingba with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 挺拔 from the suggestions. Typing tingba into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
挺拔 is an HSK 6 word in the 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.