掉 diào▶ ngã, rơi, đổ

Stroke order

掉 is written in 11 strokes.

• 掉

Senses

1. to fall
2. to drop
3. to lag behind
4. to lose
5. to go missing
6. to reduce
7. fall (in prices)
8. to lose (value, weight etc)
9. to wag
10. to swing
11. to turn
12. to change
13. to exchange
14. to swap
15. to show off
16. to shed (hair)
17. (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)

Example sentences

• 我的笔掉在地上了。Wǒ de bǐ diào zài dì shang le.My pen fell on the ground.
• 树上的叶子掉了。Shù shang de yèzi diào le.The leaves fell from the tree.

Related words

• 地址Địa chỉ
• 调查điều tra

掉 is pronounced diào and means “ngã, rơi, đổ”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 掉 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.