撇
piěpiē HSK7

discard

撇 piě frequency
brush stroke measure word
the left-slanting downward brush stroke used in Chinese calligraphy

汉字“人”的第一笔是一撇。

hàn​zì“ rén” de dì​yī bǐ shì yī piě.

The first stroke of the Chinese character 'ren' is a left-falling stroke.

throw verb
to throw or cast something away

他把石头往水里一撇。

tā bǎ shí​tou wǎng shuǐ lǐ yī piě.

He tossed a stone into the water.

撇 piē
cast away verb
to cast away or fling aside

他把旧衣服撇在一边。

tā bǎ jiù yī​fu piē zài yī​biān.

He tossed his old clothes aside.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,882nd most common 11.5 per million
Movie subtitles
2,529th most common 8.26 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.55 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
5.91 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+6487

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