抛
pāo HSK7

throw (away)

抛 拋 pāo
to abandon verb
to leave behind; to desert; to cast aside

很久以前，我把她抛在了身后。

hěn jiǔ yǐ​qián, wǒ bǎ tā pāo zài le shēn​hòu.

I left her behind a long time ago.

to throw verb
to throw; to toss; to hurl; to fling; to cast

船减速时，船上的人被狠狠地向前抛了出去。

chuán jiǎn sù shí, chuán​shang de rén bèi hěn​hěn de xiàng​qián pāo le chū qù.

As the ship slows down, the people on board are thrown violently forward.

to expose
(bound form) to expose; to show; to reveal to the public, such as in the idiom 抛头露面 pāo​tóu​lù​miàn
to distance
to leave someone behind in a race or competition; to outdistance; to outstrip

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,692nd most common 54.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,379th most common 52.4 per million appears in 25% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
25.4 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
26.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
拋
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+629B

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)