tiáo

clause, condition; string, stripe

DEFINITIONS

條 tiáo
  • strip
  • item
  • article
  • clause (of law or treaty)
  • classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)

WORDS

先決件 xiān jué tiáo jiàn precondition; prerequisite
免責款 miǎn zé tiáo kuǎn disclaimer
免賠款 miǎn péi tiáo kuǎn franchise clause (insurance)
全面禁止核試驗約 quán miàn jìn zhǐ hé shì yàn tiáo yuē Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
子 rǒng tiáo zi unwanted branches (of a tree etc)
前提件 qián tí tiáo jiàn preconditions
命 bàn tiáo mìng half a life; only half alive; barely alive; (scared, beaten etc) half to death
南京約 nán jīng tiáo yuē Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
kǒu tiáo (ox etc) tongue (as food); (Tw) elocution; articulation
和平約 hé píng tiáo yuē peace treaty
sì tiáo four of a kind; quads (poker)
huí tiáo receipt; note acknowledging receipt
bào tiáo report of success from a candidate to the imperial examination (old); list of deaths
mò tiáo ink stick
多個朋友多路 duō gè péng yǒu duō tiáo lù the more friends you have, the more options you have in life (idiom)
dà tiáo (used to modify 事情[shi4 qing5]) serious; grave
大蕭 dà xiāo tiáo the Great Depression (1929-c. 1939)
天津會議專 tiān jīn huì yì zhuān tiáo Tianjin agreement of 1885 between Li Hongzhang 李鴻章|李鸿章[Li3 Hong2 zhang1] and ITŌ Hirobumi 伊藤博文[Yi1 teng2 Bo2 wen2] to pull Qing and Japanese troops out of Korea
天津約 tiān jīn tiáo yuē Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不平等條約|不平等条约 between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China
zì tiáo brief note
fēng tiáo seal
尼布楚約 ní bù chǔ tiáo yuē Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia
píng tiáo set of (usually four) hanging scrolls
工具 gōng jù tiáo toolbar (in computer software)
廣告幅 guǎng gào tiáo fú banner advertisement