掉

Pinyin: diào

to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose

Example sentence

你把你的铅笔弄掉了。

Nǐ bǎ nǐ de qiānbǐ nòng diào le.

You dropped your pencil.

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What 掉 means

掉 (diào) is a Chinese word meaning “to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose”. It appears in the HSK 4 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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