| 挑 | tiǎo qǐ | to provoke / to stir up / to incite | 
| 挑 | tiāo | to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick | 
| 挑 | tiǎo | to raise / to dig up / to poke / to prick / to incite / to stir up | 
| 起 | qǐ | to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |