pāo

throw (away)

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

hand

尢 unknown component

  Unknown component

yóuwāng

  

lame

力 unknown component

  Unknown component

  

power

Evolution

拋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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pāo

throw (away), abandon, reject; to throw; to toss; to fling; to cast; to abandon

Most common words with 拋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to throw

抛弃

to abandon

抛开

to throw out

抛售

to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)

抛锚

to drop anchor

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 25.2603% of movies

1380th most common character in movies

1692nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Simplified

Unicode

U+62CB

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“拋,棄也。从手,从尤〔尢〕,从力;或从手,聲。”


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