掉
diào HSK2

fall, drop

掉 diào
[resultative] particle
Used after a verb to show completion, removal, or that something has gone away.

他差点把剑掉了。

tā chà​diǎn bǎ jiàn diào le.

He almost dropped his sword.

to fall verb
to fall; to drop; to shed

万一掉下去怎么办？

wàn​yī diào xia qù zěn​me​bàn?

What if we fall?

每天掉多少头发是正常的？

měi​tiān diào duō​shao tóu​fa shì zhèng​cháng de?

How much hair loss per day is normal?

to lose verb
to lose; to be missing; to be left out

他开始掉头发了。

tā kāi​shǐ diào tóu​fa le.

He is beginning to lose his hair.

to turn verb
to turn; to turn around; to change; to swap; to exchange
to decline verb
to fall in price or value; to fade of color; to reduce

你说你的成绩掉了一点点吧？

nǐ shuō nǐ de chéng​jì diào le yī​diǎn​diǎn ba?

You said your grades dropped a bit, right?

to wag
to wag; to swing; to shake
to show off
to show off; to display one's knowledge
to fall behind
to lag behind; to fall back from a group

Cross-References

Referenced by

Frequency
Character
Written text
849th most common 209.5 per million
Movie subtitles
312th most common 508.5 per million appears in 88% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
481.1 per million appears in 80% of films
Written text
149.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+6389

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