掉

掉 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手卜日十 (QYAJ), four-corner 5104₆, composition ⿰扌卓)

• 𦄹, 𧐼, 𬕩

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 436, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12243
• Dae Jaweon: page 786, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1896, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6389

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *deːwʔ, *deːwɢs, *rneːwɢ): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 卓 (OC *rteːwɢ).

掉

1. to drop; to fall

   硬幣掉在了地上。 [MSC, trad.]
   硬币掉在了地上。 [MSC, simp.]

   Yìngbì diàozàile dìshàng. [Pinyin]

   The coin dropped on the ground.

2. to lose; to part

   掉色  ―  diàosè  ―  to lose color

   掉髮／掉发  ―  diàofà  ―  to lose hair

3. to shake; to wag; to swing

   尾大不掉  ―  wěidàbùdiào  ―  "too fat a tail to wag"; to be hampered by one's own powerful subordinates

4. to turn; to move

   掉轉／掉转  ―  diàozhuǎn  ―  to turn around

   掉頭／掉头  ―  diàotóu  ―  to make a U-turn

5. (dialectal, intransitive) to be missing; to be lost

   我錢包掉了。／我钱包掉了。  ―  Wǒ qiánbāo diào le.  ―  I lost my wallet.

6. (Yangzhou Mandarin) to leave behind; to forget to bring

   • 這塊呢有個粗心的大學生，在公交車上估計把錄取通知書拿起來望望的，不小心就掉到這個公交車上了，忘脫拿了。 [Yangzhou Mandarin, trad.]
     这块呢有个粗心的大学生，在公交车上估计把录取通知书拿起来望望的，不小心就掉到这个公交车上了，忘脱拿了。 [Yangzhou Mandarin, simp.]

     From: September 11, 2025, 今日生活

     Here's a careless university student, probably looking at his acceptance letter on the bus, accidentally left it behind and forgot to take it.

7. (Cantonese, Teochew) to throw; to toss

   掉西瓜落海 [Cantonese]  ―  deu⁶ sai¹ gwaa¹ lok⁶ hoi² [Jyutping]  ―  to throw a watermelon into the ocean (superstition in Hong Kong that it will aid in the recovery of people lost at sea)

8. (Cantonese, Teochew) to toss out; to dispose of; to discard

   掉咗好多唔應該掉嘅嘢 [Cantonese, trad.]
   掉咗好多唔应该掉嘅嘢 [Cantonese, simp.]

   deu⁶ zo² hou² do¹ m⁴ jing¹ goi¹ deu⁶ ge³ je⁵ [Jyutping]

   threw away a lot of things that one shouldn't have

9. Used along with a verb to indicate completion, usually together with 了 (le); or to indicate imperative mood.

   他戒掉了煙。／他戒掉了烟。  ―  Tā jièdiàole yān.  ―  He quit smoking.

   把燈關掉。／把灯关掉。  ―  Bǎ dēng guāndiào.  ―  Turn off the lights.

   家裡的電飯鍋壞掉了。 [MSC, trad.]
   家里的电饭锅坏掉了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Jiālǐ de diànfànguō huàidiàole. [Pinyin]

   Our rice cooker has broken.

10. (Mainland China Hokkien) to shake; to shiver

• (to lose): 甩 (shuǎi)
• (to throw):

• (to discard):

• (to shake):

• 落 (luò)
• (Wu, Jianghuai Mandarin) 脫 / 脱

掉

1. (obsolete) to hold; to wield; to bear; to lift

• “掉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←でう (deu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちょう (chō)^{←てう (teu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: とう (tō)^{←たう (tau, historical)}
• Kun: ふるう (furuu, 掉う)^{←ふるふ (furufu, 掉ふ, historical)}

掉 (eum 도 (do))

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掉: Hán Nôm readings: trao, chèo, điệu, sạo, trạo, tráo

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