Memory phrase for the Kanji: 掉

掉

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Meaning

to fall, to drop, to lag behind

Pronunciation

 diào

Explanation

 Left: hand 扌, right: excellent 卓 ([before the day happens:] Fortune telling 卜 early at the morning 早 is excellent.) [卜 = divining = crack in turtle's shell]

Mnemonic
 
(As a support/hold when falling) A hand is excellent, when you fall.

Radicals

扌 handSimplification of this hand 手
卓 outstanding, excellentFortune telling 占 early at the morning 早 is excellent.
卜 oracle, mysticismThis radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.
早 early, morning
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 Vocabulary

去掉 qù diào  to get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to delete; to strip out; to extract
丢掉 diū diào  to lose; to throw away; to discard; to cast away
扔掉 rēng diào  to throw away; to throw out
扔掉 rēng diào  

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