刁 diāo

1. diāo adjective artful; tricky; wicked
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '刁'; Guoyu '刁' adj; Unihan '刁'; XHZD '刁', p. 148)
2. diāo proper noun Diao
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '刁'; Guoyu '刁' n)
3. diāo noun clapper pots
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In 刁斗 (Kroll 2015 '刁' 1, p. 87)
4. diāo verb to hold in the mouth
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: As a variant of 叼 (Guoyu '刁' v 1)
5. diāo verb to snatch
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '刁' v 2)

Contained in

• 刁斗 soldier's copper saucepan, used for cooking food by day and for sounding the night watches during the hours of darkness (in ancient times)
• 刁蹬用强(刁蹬用強) to use crafty words in an argument
• 刁滑 artful; crafty
• 刁藩都方程 Diophantine equation
• 刁妇(刁婦) shrew; virago
• 刁钻(刁鑽) crafty; tricky
• 刁蛮(刁蠻) crafty and unruly
• 石刁柏 asparagus
• 刁难(刁難) to be hard on somebody; to deliberately make things difficult
• 百般刁难(百般刁難) to put up innumerable obstacles; to create all kinds of difficulties
• 刁狡 devious
• 刁刁 flutter and shake
• 放刁 to act wickedly; to bully; to make life difficult for somebody by unreasonable actions
• 奸刁 scheming

Also contained in

刁藩都 、 刁亦男

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷六十九 列傳第三十九 劉隗 刁協 戴若思 周顗 Volume 69 Biographies 39: Liu Wei; Diao Xie; Dai Ruosi; Zhou Yi Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 17
• 卷38 刁雍 王慧龍 韓延之 袁式 Volume 38: Diao Yong, Wang Huilong, Han Yanzhi, Yuan Shi Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 16
• 卷84 儒林:梁越 盧醜 張偉 梁祚 平恆 陳奇 常爽 劉獻之 Volume 84: Renowned Confucians - Liang Yue, Lu Chou, Zhang Wei, Liang Zuo, Ping Heng, Chen Qi, Chang Shuang, Liu Xianzhi Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 16
• 卷二十六　列傳第十四:　宋隱 許彥 刁雍 辛紹先 韋閬 杜銓 Volume 26 Biographies 14: Song Yin, Xu Yan, Diao Yong, Xin Shaoxian, Weu Lang, Du Quan History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 8
• 難一第三十六 Chapter 36: Difficulties I Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 6
• 卷五十 Scroll 50 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
• 卷九十八 列傳第六十八 王敦 桓溫 Volume 98 Biographies 68: Wang Dun; Huan Wen Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 5
• 十過第十 Chapter 10: Ten Faults Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 5
• 卷八十一　列傳第六十九:　儒林上 Volume 81 Biographies 69: Confucian Scholars 1 History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 5
• 卷四四　列傳第三六　 儒林 Volume 44 Biographies 36: Confucian Scholars Book of Northern Qi 北齊書 — count: 5

Collocations

• 竖刁 (豎刁) 豎刁 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 37
• 刁协 (刁協) 刁協並爲腹心股肱 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六 帝紀第六 中宗元帝 肅宗明帝 Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Yuan; Emperor Ming — count: 34
• 刁雍 (刁雍) 東安公刁雍東趣廣陵 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷九十五 列傳第五十五 索虜 Volume 95 Biographies 55: Suo Lu — count: 16
• 刁冲 (刁沖) 本書卷八四儒林刁沖傳 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷38 刁雍 王慧龍 韓延之 袁式 Volume 38: Diao Yong, Wang Huilong, Han Yanzhi, Yuan Shi — count: 13
• 令刁 (令刁) 尚書令刁協奔於江乘 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六 帝紀第六 中宗元帝 肅宗明帝 Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Yuan; Emperor Ming — count: 12
• 刁氏 (刁氏) 敦德刁氏 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十九 列傳第三十九 劉隗 刁協 戴若思 周顗 Volume 69 Biographies 39: Liu Wei; Diao Xie; Dai Ruosi; Zhou Yi — count: 8
• 刁玄 (刁玄) 使五官中郎將刁玄告亂于蜀 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四十八 吳書三 三嗣主傳 Volume 48: Book of Wu 3 - Biographies of the three heirs — count: 8
• 刁双 (刁雙) 刁雙入梁 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷三十二 列傳第二十六 陳慶之 蘭欽 Volume 32: Chen Qingzhi; Lan Qin — count: 7
• 刁令 (刁令) 刁令中興上佐 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十九 列傳第三十九 劉隗 刁協 戴若思 周顗 Volume 69 Biographies 39: Liu Wei; Diao Xie; Dai Ruosi; Zhou Yi — count: 6
• 刁默 (刁默) 建威將車刁默等爲軍前鋒 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷四 帝紀第四 孝惠帝 Volume 4 Annals 4: Emperor Hui — count: 6