Chinese Character 掉 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

掉 meaning[3] in English

To Fall.

To Drop.

To Lag Behind.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and surname Zhuo (卓)

Its radical[1] is: (shou3) which means: Hand, (Formal) To Hold, Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work, Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work, Personal(Ly), Convenient, Classifier For Skill, Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1], .shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QYAJ

How to write 掉

To writediao4to fall you should write a combination of shou5'hand' radical … , zhuo2surname Zhuo arranged in a shape:

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掉 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 掉 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:diao4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Fall . To Drop . To Lag Behind . To Lose . To Go Missing . To Reduce . Fall (In Prices) . To Lose (Value, Weight Etc) . To Wag . To Swing . To Turn . To Change . To Exchange . To Swap . To Show Off . To Shed (Hair) . (Used After Certain Verbs To Express Completion, Fulfillment, Removal Etc)

Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc

Pinyin:zhuo2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Surname Zhuo

Pinyin:bo5
Meaning[3]: Surname Bu

Pinyin:zao3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Early . Morning . Good Morning! . Long Ago . Prematurely

Pinyin:ri4
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For 日本[Ri4 Ben3], Japan

Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: Ten . 10

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 掉in English or Chinese