(diào) - to fall, to drop; (result complement) away, off in Mandarin
diàoTraditional: 掉
Translation
to fall, to drop; (result complement) away, off
Word origin
掉 is a phono-semantic compound: 扌 (the hand radical) gives the meaning and 卓 (zhuó) supplies the sound. It means 'to fall, to drop', and serves as a result complement meaning 'away, off'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 扌 (shǒu, hand radical) + 卓 (zhuó, phonetic)
Stroke order
掉
Examples
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The cup fell off the table.
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Your key has dropped.
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Please forget about this matter.
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My keys fell on the floor.
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My wallet fell on the bus.
掉 (diào) means to fall or drop as a standalone verb. As a result complement attached to other verbs it indicates removal, elimination, or completion: 忘掉 (to forget completely), 扔掉 (to throw away), 去掉 (to remove), 卖掉 (to sell off). This complement use is very common in everyday Mandarin and gives 掉 a sense of getting rid of or finishing off something definitively.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 掉.
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