甩
shuǎi HSK7

throw away

甩 shuǎi
dump verb
to abandon or break up with a romantic partner

听说他被女朋友甩了。

tīng​shuō tā bèi nǚ​péng​you shuǎi le.

I heard his girlfriend dumped him.

leave behind verb
to outpace, outrun, or leave others behind in a race or competition

他猛地一加速，把其他选手远远地甩在后头。

tā měng​de yī jiā​sù, bǎ qí​tā xuǎn​shǒu yuǎn​yuǎn de shuǎi zài hòu​tou.

He suddenly accelerated and left the other contestants far behind.

throw verb
to throw, fling, or toss something with a swinging motion

他把湿毛巾甩到了杆子上。

tā bǎ shī máo​jīn shuǎi dào le gǎn​zi shàng.

He flung the wet towel onto the pole.

swing verb
to move something back and forth, or to wag

小牛在草地上甩着尾巴。

xiǎo​niú zài cǎo​dì shàng shuǎi zhe wěi​ba.

The calf was swishing its tail in the grass.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,603rd most common 16.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,607th most common 36.7 per million appears in 18% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
35.8 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
20.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+7529

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