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掉

diào

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character

掉 (diào) means "to fall/drop (result)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 掉 means

1. to fall
2. to drop
3. to lag behind
4. to lose
5. to go missing
6. to reduce
7. fall (in prices)
8. to lose (value, weight etc)
9. to wag
10. to swing
11. to turn
12. to change
13. to exchange
14. to swap
15. to show off
16. to shed (hair)
17. (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)

Example sentences

• 扔掉
  Rēngdiào
  Throw it out.
• 吃掉它。
  Eat it.
• 扣子掉了。
  Kòuzi diào le.
  The button came off.
• 把它关掉。
  Turn it off.
• 把它吃掉。
  Eat it.
• 苹果掉了！
  The apple fell!

Words starting with 掉

• 掉下diào xiàto drop down; to fall
• 掉头diào tóuto turn one's head; to turn round; to turn about
• 掉落diào luòto fall down
• 掉泪diào lèito shed tears
• 掉以轻心diào yǐ qīng xīnto treat sth lightly; to lower one's guard
• 掉转diào zhuǎnto turn around
• 掉队diào duìto fall behind; to drop out
• 掉价diào jiàdrop in price; devalued; to have one's status lowered
• 掉向diào xiàngto turn; to adjust one's direction; to lose one's bearings
• 掉换diào huànto swap; to replace; to exchange
• 掉举diào jǔrestlessness (Buddhism)
• 掉期diào qīswap (finance)
• 掉球diào qiú(sports) to fumble the ball
• 掉线diào xiànto get disconnected (from the Internet)
• 掉色diào sèto lose color; to fade; also pr. diào shǎi
• 掉过diào guòto swap places
• 掉链子diào liàn zito have one's bicycle chain come off; (fig.) to let sb down; to drop the ball; to screw up
• 掉点儿diào diǎn rdrip of rain
• 掉头就走diào tóu jiù zǒuto turn on one's heels; to walk away abruptly
• 掉粉diào fěnto lose fans
• 掉书袋diào shū dàilit. to wave around one's bookbag (idiom); fig. to show off one's erudition…
• 掉秤diào chèngto lose weight (of cattle)
• 掉膘diào biāoto lose weight (of cattle)
• 掉漆diào qīto peel off (paint); (fig.) to be exposed; to lose face (Tw)

Words containing 掉

• 忘掉wàng diàoto forget
• 去掉qù diàoto get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate
• 卖掉mài diàoto sell off
• 吃掉chī diàoto eat up; to consume
• 扔掉rēng diàoto throw away; to throw out
• 丢掉diū diàoto lose; to throw away; to discard
• 关掉guān diàoto switch off; to shut off
• 干掉gàn diàoto get rid of
• 死掉sǐ diàoto die
• 脱掉tuō diàoto remove; to take off; to strip off
• 毁掉huǐ diàoto destroy
• 跑掉pǎo diàoto run away; to take to one's heels
• 打掉dǎ diàoto tear down; to destroy; to dismantle (a gang)
• 甩掉shuǎi diàoto throw off; to abandon; to cast off
• 删掉shān diàoto delete
• 走掉zǒu diàoto leave
• 改掉gǎi diàoto correct (a bad habit etc)
• 除掉chú diàoto eliminate
• 拔掉bá diàoto pluck; to pull off; to pull out
• 失掉shī diàoto lose; to miss
• 擦掉cā diàoto wipe
• 撕掉sī diàoto tear out (and throw away); to rip away
• 剪掉jiǎn diàoto cut off; to cut away; to trim
• 漏掉lòu diàoto miss; to leave out; to omit

Characters that look like 掉

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

• 棒bàngstick; club; cudgel
• 悼dàoto mourn; to lament
• 绰chuò(bound form) ample; spacious; (literary) graceful; used in 绰号
• 掸dǎnto brush away; to dust off; brush
• 搀chānto take by the arm and assist; variant of 掺
• 焯chāoto blanch; to parboil

Sounds the same

Read diào, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 钓to fish with a hook and line; to angle
• 吊to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person
• 调to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate
• 铫pan with a long handle
• 窎(literary) distant; deep; profound
• 蓧bamboo basket
• 藋Sambucu javinica
• 伄used in 伄儅
• 铞see 钌铞儿

Where 掉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Movement & physical actions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read diào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.