Memory phrase for the character: 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 hand
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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