撂
liào

put down

撂 liào
abandon verb
to leave behind, discard, or give up on a task or responsibility

你不能干到一半就撂挑子。

nǐ bù néng gàn dào yī​bàn jiù liào tiāo​zi.

You can't just throw in the towel halfway through.

knock down verb
to throw down or fell someone or something

他使了一个绊子，把对手撂倒了。

tā shǐ le yī gè bàn zi, bǎ duì​shǒu liào dǎo le.

He tripped his opponent and knocked him down.

put down verb
to set something down or lay it aside

他随手把书往桌上一撂。

tā suí​shǒu bǎ shū wǎng zhuō shàng yī liào.

He casually tossed the book on the table.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,807th most common 3.61 per million
Movie subtitles
3,330th most common 1.96 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.33 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.22 per million

Details
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+6482

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