HSK 6 · Verbs

吊 diào “to hang” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 吊 means

  1. to hang
  2. to suspend
  3. to lift (with a crane)
  4. to hang up
  5. to hang a person

How to say 吊

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale吊diào4th tone, falling

吊 in a sentence

  1. 灯笼在树枝上吊着。

    Dēnglong zài shùzhī shang diào zhe.

    The lantern was hanging from a tree branch.

    Sentence #1448906 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 多么漂亮的小吊坠啊！

    Duōme piàoliang de xiǎo diàozhuì a!

    What a pretty little pendant!

    Sentence #13753112 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 吊 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 吊 (diào) with each of its parts in a different colour
吊diàoto suspend
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 巾napkin · jīn

How to write 吊

吊 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 吊

More words: Common Verbs

得罪dézuì · to offend颠倒diāndǎo · to turn upside down奠定diàndìng · to establish点缀diǎnzhuì · to decorate叼diāo · to hold in the mouth跌diē · to fall抵抗dǐkàng · to resist盯dīng · to stare at

FAQs

吊 (diào) means “to hang” or “to suspend”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it diào: diào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 吊 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type diao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 吊 from the suggestions. Typing diao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
吊 is an HSK 6 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.