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Mythic Mandarin

丢掉 (diū diào): meaning and stroke order

丢掉 (diū diào) means to lose, to throw away, to discard, to cast away.

丢掉

Simplified
丢掉
Traditional
丟掉
Pinyin
diū diào

Stroke order of 丢掉

丢

  • diū to lose; to put aside
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 丟

Stroke by stroke

掉

  • diào to fall; to drop
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 丢掉

  1. diū diào Traditional 丟掉
    • to lose
    • to throw away
    • to discard
    • to cast away

Radicals of the characters

丢
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 6 strokes
掉
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 11 strokes · 扌 on the left, 卓 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

丢掉 in our stories

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  • 窗外是纽约灯火辉煌的夜景，他第一次认真地问自己：为了走到今天，我到底丢掉了什么？

    chuāngwài shì Niǔyuē dēnghuǒ huīhuáng de yèjǐng tā dì-yī cì rènzhēn de wèn zìjǐ wèile zǒu dào jīntiān wǒ dàodǐ diūdiào le shénme

    Outside the window New York blazed with light, and for the first time he seriously asked himself: to get here, what exactly did I throw away?

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 丢掉

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).