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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

挑逗性tiǎo dòu xìng

provocative / tantalizing / titillating

挑头tiǎo tóu

to take the lead / to be first to (do sth) / to pioneer

挑头儿tiǎo tóu r

erhua variant of 挑頭|挑头[tiǎo tóu]

挑高tiāo gāo

(architecture) high-ceilinged / to raise (a ceiling) to a height of / ceiling height

出挑chū tiāo

(of a young person) to grow (prettier etc) / to mature into / to blossom

剃头挑子一头热tì tóu tiāo zi yī tóu rè

lit. only one end of the barber's pole is hot (idiom) / fig. one-sided enthusiasm / one party is interested, but the other, not so much / (Note: In former days, street barbers carried their equipment on a pole, with tools and a stool at one end and a brazier at the other.)

千挑万选qiān tiāo wàn xuǎn

to select very carefully

单挑dān tiǎo

to pick / to choose / to fight a duel / Taiwan pr. [dān tiāo]

撂挑子liào tiāo zi

(coll.) to quit one's job in disgust

柿子挑软的捏shì zi tiāo ruǎn de niē

lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom) / fig. it's the weak (i.e. 軟柿子|软柿子[ruǎn shì zi]) who get picked on / bullies pick soft targets