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抛

pāo

HSK 6 Character Traditional 拋

What 抛 means

1. to throw
2. to toss
3. to fling
4. to cast
5. to abandon

Example sentences

• 车抛锚了。
  The car broke down.
• 汤姆抛弃了他们。
  Tom abandoned them.
• 她抛弃了她的孩子。
  Tā pāoqì le tā de háizi.
  She abandoned her children.
• 男孩抛出一块石头。
  Nánhái pāochū yīkuài shítou.
  The boy throws a stone.
• 把悲伤抛到脑后吧。
  Bǎ bēishāng pāo dào nǎohòu ba.
  Forget your sorrows.
• 她们被母亲抛弃了。
  They were abandoned by their mother.

Words starting with 抛

• 抛弃pāo qìto abandon; to discard; to renounce
• 抛开pāo kāito throw out; to get rid of
• 抛出pāo chūto toss; to throw out
• 抛下pāo xiàto throw down; to dump; to abandon
• 抛售pāo shòuto dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)
• 抛锚pāo máoto drop anchor; (fig.) (of a car etc) to break down
• 抛砖引玉pāo zhuān yǐn yùlit. throw out a brick and get jade thrown back (idiom)…
• 抛头露面pāo tóu lù miànto put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly)
• 抛光pāo guāngto polish; to burnish
• 抛却pāo quèto discard
• 抛射pāo shèto throw; to shoot
• 抛撒pāo sǎto sprinkle
• 抛散pāo sànto scatter; to disperse
• 抛空pāo kōngto short-sell (finance)
• 抛脸pāo liǎnto lose face; humiliation
• 抛荒pāo huāngto lie idle (of arable land); fig. rusty because of lack of practice
• 抛补pāo bǔcover (i.e. insurance against loss in financial deals)
• 抛费pāo fèito waste; to squander
• 抛离pāo líto desert; to leave; to forsake
• 抛体pāo tǐprojectile
• 抛射物pāo shè wùprojectile
• 抛射体pāo shè tǐprojectile
• 抛物线pāo wù xiànparabola
• 抛物面pāo wù miàn(geometry) paraboloid

Words containing 抛

• 打抛dǎ pāoholy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum) (loanword from Thai "kaphrao")…
• 日抛rì pāo(attributive) daily disposable; intended for one-day use
• 双曲抛物面shuāng qū pāo wù miàn(geometry) hyperbolic paraboloid
• 打抛猪dǎ pāo zhūstir-fried pork with basil; pork phat kaphrao

Characters that look like 抛

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 组zǔto form; to organize; group
• 励lìto encourage; to urge
• 拖tuōto drag; to tow; to trail
• 扼èto grip forcefully; to clutch at; to guard
• 拙zhuōawkward; clumsy; dull
• 拗ào(bound form) intractable; contrary; disobedient

Sounds the same

Read pāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 泡puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names); classifier for urine or feces
• 脬bladder
• 藨used in the names of various berries