"單挑" meaning in Chinese

See 單挑 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA], /tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan], /taːn⁵⁵ tʰiːu̯⁵⁵/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/, /tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/, /tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/, /taːn⁵⁵ tʰiːu̯⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: dāntiǎo [Mandarin, Pinyin], dāntiāo [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠˇ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠ [Mandarin, bopomofo], daan¹ tiu¹ [Cantonese, Jyutping], dāntiǎo [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], dantiǎo [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], tan¹-tʻiao³ [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], dān-tyǎu [Mandarin, Yale], danteau [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], даньтяо [Mandarin, Palladius], danʹtjao [Mandarin, Palladius], dāntiǎor [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin], ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠˇㄦ [Mandarin, bopomofo], dantiǎor [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin], tan¹-tʻiao³-ʼrh [Mandarin, Wade-Giles], dān-tyǎur [Mandarin, Yale], danteaul [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin], даньтяор [Mandarin, Palladius], danʹtjaor [Mandarin, Palladius], dāntiāo [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan], ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan, bopomofo], dantiao [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan, Tongyong-Pinyin], tan¹-tʻiao¹ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan, Wade-Giles], dān-tyāu [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan, Yale], dantiau [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan], даньтяо [Mandarin, Palladius, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan], danʹtjao [Mandarin, Palladius, Standard-Chinese, Taiwan], dāan tīu [Cantonese, Yale], daan¹ tiu¹ [Cantonese, Pinyin], dan¹ tiu¹ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization] Forms: 单挑
Head templates: {{zh-verb}} 單挑
  1. to pick a person to fight one-to-one Synonyms: PK (pīkèi), PK (alt: pīkèi), 隻揪 [Cantonese], 只揪 [Cantonese], 釘孤枝 [Hokkien], 钉孤枝 [Hokkien]
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "单挑",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "單挑",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with multiple pronunciations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to pick a person to fight one-to-one"
      ],
      "id": "en-單挑-zh-verb-3l8JDzB2",
      "links": [
        [
          "pick",
          "pick"
        ],
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "one-to-one",
          "one-to-one"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "pīkèi",
          "word": "PK"
        },
        {
          "alt": "pīkèi",
          "word": "PK"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "隻揪"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "只揪"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "釘孤枝"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "钉孤枝"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiǎo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiāo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "daan¹ tiu¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiǎo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dantiǎo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tan¹-tʻiao³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dān-tyǎu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danteau"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "даньтяо"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danʹtjao"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiǎor"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠˇㄦ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dantiǎor"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tan¹-tʻiao³-ʼrh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dān-tyǎur"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danteaul"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "даньтяор"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danʹtjaor"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiāo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dantiao"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tan¹-tʻiao¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dān-tyāu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dantiau"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "даньтяо"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danʹtjao"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāan tīu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "daan¹ tiu¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dan¹ tiu¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/taːn⁵⁵ tʰiːu̯⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/taːn⁵⁵ tʰiːu̯⁵⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "單挑"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "单挑",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "單挑",
      "name": "zh-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Cantonese verbs",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 單",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 挑",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Chinese verbs",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Mandarin terms with homophones",
        "Mandarin terms with multiple pronunciations",
        "Mandarin verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to pick a person to fight one-to-one"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pick",
          "pick"
        ],
        [
          "fight",
          "fight"
        ],
        [
          "one-to-one",
          "one-to-one"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiǎo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiāo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "daan¹ tiu¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiǎo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dantiǎo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tan¹-tʻiao³"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dān-tyǎu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danteau"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "даньтяо"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danʹtjao"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiǎor"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠˇㄦ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dantiǎor"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tan¹-tʻiao³-ʼrh"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dān-tyǎur"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danteaul"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "даньтяор"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danʹtjaor"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāntiāo"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄉㄢ ㄊㄧㄠ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dantiao"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "tan¹-tʻiao¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dān-tyāu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dantiau"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "даньтяо"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "danʹtjao"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Taiwan"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dāan tīu"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "daan¹ tiu¹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "dan¹ tiu¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/taːn⁵⁵ tʰiːu̯⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tän⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/taːn⁵⁵ tʰiːu̯⁵⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "pīkèi",
      "word": "PK"
    },
    {
      "alt": "pīkèi",
      "word": "PK"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "隻揪"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "只揪"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "釘孤枝"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "钉孤枝"
    }
  ],
  "word": "單挑"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 單挑 meaning in Chinese (3.8kB)

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <sup> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "單挑"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "單挑",
  "trace": "started on line 36, detected on line 36"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </sup>",
  "path": [
    "單挑"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "單挑",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "單挑"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "單挑",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "單挑"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "單挑",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "單挑"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "單挑",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-07-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-01 using wiktextract (45c4a21 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.