Word and Radical Components of 跳舞

The Chinese word 跳舞 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
跳舞	tiàowǔ	1. v. to dance (move rhythmically)

跳舞 ⇨ 跳 + 舞

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
跳	tiào	1. to jump; to leap; to hop
		2. to pass over; to skip; to bypass
		跳級 - to skip a grade
		我絕對不跳這麼好聽的 OP。 - I will never skip such an awesome opening.
		3. to beat; to palpitate; to pulsate
		心跳 - heartbeat
		4. to jump (into or from) so as to result in death
		跳河 - to commit suicide by jumping into a river
		跳樓 - to commit suicide by jumping out of a window; to jump to one's death
		5. (attention, zh, missing 电水壶自动跳?)
	táo	6. (obsolete) Alternative form of 逃 (to flee)
舞	wǔ	1. to dance (move rhythmically)
		載zài歌載zài舞 - to sing and dance; festive celebrations -
		2. dance (performance art); dancing
		芭蕾舞 - ballet -
		中國舞 - Chinese dance -
		跳一個舞 - to perform a dance -
		3. to dance with something in one's hands
		舞獅 - to perform a lion dance -
		舞火龍
		4. to wield; to brandish; to shake
		舞劍 - to brandish a sword -
		5. (literary or in compounds) to fly; to flutter
		眉飛色舞 - to beam with joy -
		6. (literary or in compounds) to play with
		舞弊 - to engage in fraudulent practices -
		舞文弄墨
		7. (Cantonese, Hakka) to mess with; to play with; to tease
		啲新仔畀同事舞mou5-2 到陀陀to4-2擰ning6。 - The colleagues messed with the newbies big time.
		8. (Cantonese, Hokkien) to fiddle with; to be busy with; to handle; to operate
		我舞mou5-2 咗半日都舞mou5-2 唔掂部麵包機。 - I've worked on this for half a day, but I still haven't figured out how this bread machine works.
		Wu

跳 ⇨ ⻊ + 兆

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
足	zú	1. (anatomy) foot
		2. (anatomy) leg (of an animal)
		3. leg (of an object)
		4. (in compounds) football; soccer
		女足 - women's football -
		足協 - football association -
		5. to walk
		6. to tread; to stamp; to step
		Zu
	zú	7. to satisfy; to fulfill
		滿足 - satisfied; to satisfy
		8. to stop; to cease
		9. enough; sufficient; not lacking
		10. abundant; affluent
		11. (literary, or in compounds) to be worthy of; to warrant
		12. fully; entirely
		13. (Zhangzhou, &, Taiwan Min Nan) very; quite
		足好 - very good, MN
		14. can; may
	jù	15. (literary) overly; excessively
		16. (literary) to replenish; to augment
兆	zhào	1. (historical) cracks formed on heated tortoise plastrons and mammal bones used in ancient divination
		2. omen
		吉兆 - auspicious omen
		3. to portend; to augur
		4. graveyard, cemetery, necropolis
		5. (chiefly Taiwan) trillion (million million), tera-, 10
		6. (Mainland China) (SI prefix) million, mega-, 10

兆 ⇨ 儿 + 冫 + 丿 + 丶

Component	Pinyin	Meanings
儿		1. legs
		2. Simplified form of 兒
		3. usage. May be used to specially write erhua (or the rhotic sound) in traditional Chinese, in contrast with child.
		4. Variant of 人
冫	bīng	1. ice
		2. Radical form of 仌.
		3. usage. This radical is also referred as 冰字旁.
丿	piě	1. slash
	yì	2. left-falling stroke, usually read as 撇
		3. to arrive
丶	zhǔ	1. dot
		2. (An ancient punctuation mark.)
		3. Alternative form of 主 (-)