叼 (diāo): to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)
叼 (diāo) is a Chinese character meaning “to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone).” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 口 (semantic) and 刁 (phonetic). It ranks #2955 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 叼 mouth. Its radical form 口 (mouth) appears in many related characters such as 口 (kǒu, mouth), 叫 (jiào, to call, to be called), 右 (yòu, (bound form) right).
Definitions
- to hold with one's mouth (as a smoker with a cigarette or a dog with a bone)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 胡叼盘 | hú diāo pán | derogatory nickname given to Hu Xijin 胡錫進|胡锡进[Hu2 Xi1 jin4] for doing the CCP's bidding as editor of the "Global Times" |
| 叼盘 | diāo pán | (of a dog) to hold a frisbee in its mouth |
叼 appears in 2 compound words: 50 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 50 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 叼 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
他叼才很好，能言善辩，是个出色的律师。
tā diāo cái hěn hǎo , néng yán shàn biàn , shì gě chū sè de lǜ shī .
He's a sharp-tongued, articulate lawyer who excels at arguing cases.
母鸟叼来虫子喂幼鸟。
Mǔ niǎo diāo lái chóngzi wèi yòu niǎo.
The mother bird brought worms for her young ones.
爷爷叼着烟管跟我说话。
Yéye diāo zhe yān guǎn gēn wǒ shuōhuà.
Grandfather talked to me with a pipe in his mouth.
我看到了一条狗。狗嘴里叼着一块肉。
Wǒ kàn dào le yī tiáo gǒu. gǒu zuǐlǐ diāo zhe yīkuài ròu.
I saw a dog. The dog held a piece of meat in its mouth.
汤姆在嘴里叼了根儿烟。
Tāngmǔ zài zuǐlǐ diāo le gēn r yān.
Tom had a cigar in his mouth.
Character Family
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