"掉" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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掉
Trad. 掉
Radical
Radical
(Bushou)		 手
Strokes 4
Composition
Strokes 11
Structure
Decomp. 扌卜日十
扌 + 卓
Prononciation
Mandarin diào
Entry Methods
Pinyin diao4
Kanji /
Cangjie
 QYAJ
手卜日十
Sijiao 5104.6
Wubi RHJH
CNS 11643 1-5A60
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+6389
GB2312 B5F4
BIG5 B1BC
HSK
Level 4
掉 diào to fall / to drop / to lag behind / to lose / to go missing / to reduce / fall (in prices) / to lose (value, weight etc) / to wag / to swing / to turn / to change / to exchange / to swap / to show off / to shed (hair) / (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
Results beginning with 掉
掉下 diào xià to drop down / to fall
掉落 diào luò to fall down
掉头 diào tóu to turn one's head / to turn round / to turn about
掉线 diào xiàn to get disconnected (from the Internet)
掉转 diào zhuǎn to turn around
掉泪 diào lèi to shed tears
掉队 diào duì to fall behind / to drop out
掉价 diào jià drop in price / devalued / to have one's status lowered
掉包 diào bāo to steal sb's valuable item and substitute a similar-looking but worthless item / to sell a fake for the genuine article / to palm off
掉期 diào qī swap (finance)
掉色 diào sè to lose color / to fade / also pr. [diao4 shai3]
掉换 diào huàn to swap / to replace / to exchange / to change
掉膘 diào biāo to lose weight (of cattle)
掉秤 diào chèng to lose weight (of cattle)
掉粉 diào fěn to lose fans
掉过 diào guò to swap places
掉举 diào jǔ restlessness (Buddhism)
掉漆 diào qī to peel off (paint) / (fig.) to be exposed / to lose face (Tw)
掉球 diào qiú (sports) to fumble the ball
掉向 diào xiàng to turn / to adjust one's direction / to lose one's bearings
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掉书袋 diào shū dài lit. to wave around one's bookbag (idiom) / fig. to show off one's erudition / a person who does so
掉点儿 diào diǎn r drip of rain
掉过儿 diào guò r erhua variant of 掉過|掉过[diao4 guo4]
掉价儿 diào jià r erhua variant of 掉價|掉价[diao4 jia4]
掉链子 diào liàn zi one's bicycle chain comes off / (fig.) to let sb down / to drop the ball / to screw up
掉以轻心 diào yǐ qīng xīn treat sth lightly / to lower one's guard
掉期交易 diào qī jiāo yì swap
掉头就走 diào tóu jiù zǒu to turn on one's heels / to walk away abruptly
Approximate Results for 掉
去掉 qù diào to get rid of / to exclude / to eliminate / to remove / to delete / to strip out / to extract
干掉 gàn diào to get rid of
关掉 guān diào to switch off / to shut off
忘掉 wàng diào to forget
吃掉 chī diào to eat up / to consume
杀掉 shā diào to kill
卖掉 mài diào to sell off / to get rid of in a sale
丢掉 diū diào to lose / to throw away / to discard / to cast away
脱掉 tuō diào to remove / to take off / to strip off / to discard / to shed / to come off / to fall off
删掉 shān diào to delete
扔掉 rēng diào to throw away / to throw out
打掉 dǎ diào to tear down / to destroy / to dismantle (a gang) / to abort (a fetus)
毁掉 huǐ diào to destroy
除掉 chú diào to eliminate
甩掉 shuǎi diào to throw off / to abandon / to cast off / to get rid of / to dump
跑掉 pǎo diào to run away / to take to one's heels
拔掉 bá diào to pluck / to pull off / to pull out / to unplug
烧掉 shāo diào to burn / to char / to cremate / to incinerate
改掉 gǎi diào to drop a bad habit
输掉 shū diào to lose
花掉 huā diào to spend (time, money) / to waste
失掉 shī diào to lose / to miss
坏掉 huài diào spoilt / ruined
擦掉 cā diào to wipe
漏掉 lòu diào to miss / to leave out / to omit / to be omitted / to be missing / to slip through / to leak out / to seep away
灭掉 miè diào to eliminate
走掉 zǒu diào to leave
炸掉 zhà diào to bomb
撕掉 sī diào to tear out (and throw away) / to rip away
剪掉 jiǎn diào to cut off / to cut away / to trim
撤掉 chè diào to cut / to throw out / to depose (from office) / to tear off
废掉 fèi diào to depose (a king)
冲掉 chōng diào to wash out / to leach
划掉 huà diào to cross out / to cross off
剥掉 bō diào to peel off / to strip off
刮掉 guā diào to scrape off / to shave off (whiskers etc) / (of the wind) to blow sth away
挖掉 wā diào to dig out / to eradicate
当掉 dàng diào to fail (a student) / to pawn / (of a computer or program) to crash / to stop working
辞掉 cí diào to quit (one's job) / to dismiss (an employee)
分掉 fēn diào to share / to divide up
杠掉 gàng diào to cross out
喝掉 hē diào to drink up / to finish (a drink)
减掉 jiǎn diào to subtract / to lose (weight)
锯掉 jù diào to saw off (a branch etc) / to amputate (a limb)
乱掉 luàn diào to throw away / to discard
免掉 miǎn diào to eliminate / to scrap
撇掉 piē diào to skim froth or foam from the surface of a liquid
泼掉 pō diào spill
碎掉 suì diào to drop and smash / broken
锁掉 suǒ diào lock up / lock out / to lock
掀掉 xiān diào to remove / to tear off
做掉 zuò diào to kill / to get rid of / (sports) to defeat / to eliminate
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老掉牙 lǎo diào yá very old / obsolete / out of date
消耗掉 xiāo hào diào consumption
尾大不掉 wěi dà bù diào large tail obstructs action (idiom) / bottom heavy / fig. rendered ineffective by subordinates
除掉标记  marking sanitization / weapon sanitization / sanitization
被优化掉 bèi yōu huà diào lit. to be optimized away / to be fired / to be the victim of downsizing
土得掉渣 tǔ de diào zhā (coll.) rustic / uncouth
脱皮掉肉 tuō pí diào ròu lit. to shed skin, drop flesh / to work as hard as possible / to work one's butt off
笑掉大牙 xiào diào dà yá to laugh one's head off / ridiculous / jaw-dropping
天上掉馅饼 tiān shàng diào xiàn bǐng a meat pie falls from the sky (idiom) / to have something fall into your lap
信贷违约掉期 xìn dài wéi yuē diào qī credit default swap (finance)
天上不会掉馅饼 tiān shàng bù huì diào xiàn bǐng there is no such thing as a free lunch (idiom)
打掉门牙，往肚子里咽 dǎ diào mén yá , wǎng dù zi lǐ yàn lit. to swallow one's knocked-out teeth after getting punched in the face (idiom) / fig. to endure bullying or insults stoically
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