掉

HSK 4#549 by frequencyradical 扌

diào["v"]

(used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc); to fall; to drop; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to shed (hair); to lag behind; to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off

Examples

扔掉

Throw it away.

吃掉它。

Eat it.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.