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摔

shuāi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 5 Character

摔 (shuāi) means "to fall; to throw down (and break)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 摔 means

1. to throw down
2. to fall
3. to drop and break

Example sentences

• 她摔伤了。
  Tā shuāishāng le.
  She was injured in a fall.
• 我怕摔倒。
  I'm afraid to fall.
• 你摔角吗？
  Do you wrestle?
• 他摔倒在地。
  Tā shuāidǎo zàidì.
  He fell to the floor.
• 汤姆摔倒了。
  Tom fell down.
• 小心别摔倒了。
  Xiǎoxīn bié shuāidǎo le.
  Be careful not to fall.

Words starting with 摔

• 摔倒shuāi dǎoto fall down; to slip and fall; to throw sb to the ground
• 摔跤shuāi jiāoto trip and fall; to wrestle; wrestling (sports)
• 摔死shuāi sǐto fall to one's death; to kill by throwing to the ground
• 摔伤shuāi shāngto injure oneself in a fall
• 摔坏shuāi huàito drop and break
• 摔断shuāi duànto break (e.g. bones) in a fall
• 摔打shuāi dato knock; to grasp sth in the hand and beat it; to toughen oneself up
• 摔破shuāi pòto fall and smash into pieces
• 摔角shuāi jiǎoto wrestle; wrestling
• 摔跌shuāi diēto take a fall
• 摔门shuāi ménto slam the door
• 摔跟头shuāi gēn touto fall; fig. to suffer a setback
• 摔交shuāi jiāovariant of 摔跤

Words containing 摔

• 假摔jiǎ shuāi(soccer) diving; simulation; flopping
• 抱摔bào shuāibody slam (wrestling move)
• 过肩摔guò jiān shuāi(judo) shoulder throw
• 破碗破摔pò wǎn pò shuāilit. to smash a cracked pot; fig. to treat oneself as hopeless and act crazily
• 破罐破摔pò guàn pò shuāi(lit.) to smash a pot just because it has a crack (idiom)…

Characters that look like 摔

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

• 辟pìpenal law; variant of 辟
• 搏bóto fight; to combat; to seize
• 樟zhāngcamphor; Cinnamonum camphara
• 褥rùmattress
• 榉jǔZeikowa acuminata
• 榫sǔn(cabinetmaking) tenon

Sounds the same

Read shuāi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 衰(bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane

Where 摔 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Throwing, Consuming & Disappearing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 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 shuāi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.