Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 掉


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Meaning

to fall, to drop, to lag behind

Pronunciation

diào

Explanation

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

Mnemonic

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

Radicals

hand
outstanding, excellent(Fortune telling early at the morning is excellent.)
oracle, mysticism(This radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling (crack in the shell of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.)
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


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