HSK 4 · Verbs

脱 tuō “to shed” in Chinese

Traditional 脫

What 脱 means

  1. to shed
  2. to take off
  3. to escape
  4. to get away from

How to say 脱

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale脱tuō1st tone, high and level

脱 in a sentence

  1. 把你的袜子脱了。

    Bǎ nǐ de wàzi tuō le.

    Take off your socks.

    Sentence #7774361 from Tatoeba

  2. 进教室时请脱下帽子。

    Jìn jiàoshì shí qǐng tuō xià màozi.

    Please take off your hat when you enter a classroom.

    Sentence #2032307 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 在这里我必须脱鞋吗？

    Zài zhèlǐ wǒ bìxū tuō xié ma?

    Do I have to take my shoes off here?

    Sentence #761291 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 脱 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 脱 (tuō) with each of its parts in a different colour
脱tuōto shed
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 兑cash · duìSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 兑 (duì) hints at the sound. Compare it with tuō.

How to write 脱

脱 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

脱 (tuō) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 脱 (tuō). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 脱

Words with 脱

摆脱bǎituō · to break free from脱离tuōlí · to break away from

More words: Common Verbs

提前tíqián · to bring forward通过tōngguò · to pass through推tuī · to push推迟tuīchí · to postpone网球wǎngqiú · tennis污染wūrǎn · to pollute无wú · not to have修理xiūlǐ · to repair

FAQs

脱 (tuō) means “to shed” or “to take off”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it tuō: tuō with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 脱 is written 脫. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tuo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 脱 from the suggestions. Typing tuo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
脱 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.