摆脱 bǎituō▶ membuang

Stroke order

摆脱 is written in 24 strokes across 2 characters.

• 摆 — 13 strokes
• 脱 — 11 strokes

Senses

1. to break away from
2. to cast off (old ideas etc)
3. to get rid of
4. to break away (from)
5. to break out (of)
6. to free oneself from
7. to extricate oneself

Related words

• 摇摆ayunan
• 脱离Bercerai dari
• 摆pendulum
• 脱lepas landas

摆脱 is pronounced bǎituō and means “membuang”. It belongs to the HSK 6 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 摆脱 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.