HSK 5 · Verbs

甩 shuǎi “to throw” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 甩 means

  1. to throw
  2. to fling
  3. to swing
  4. to leave behind
  5. to throw off
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to dump (sb)

How to say 甩

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale甩shuǎi3rd tone, dipping

甩 in a sentence

  1. 你需要甩掉几磅。

    Nǐ xūyào shuǎidiào jǐ bàng.

    You need to shed some pounds.

    Sentence #8744746 from Tatoeba

  2. 甩 can also mean “to dump (a partner)”

    我的女朋友甩了我。

    Wǒ de nǚpéngyou shuǎi le wǒ.

    My girlfriend dumped me.

    Sentence #8857222 from Tatoeba

How 甩 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 甩 (shuǎi) with each of its parts in a different colour
甩shuǎito throw
  • 月moon · yuè
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

How to write 甩

甩 5 strokes

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

Words related to 甩

More words: Common Verbs

失去shīqù · to lose实现shíxiàn · to achieve使劲儿shǐjìnr · to exert all one’s strength属于shǔyú · to be classified as撕sī · to tear碎suì · to shatter缩短suōduǎn · to shorten逃táo · to escape

FAQs

甩 (shuǎi) means “to throw” or “to fling”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shuǎi: shuǎi with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 甩 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shuai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 甩 from the suggestions. Typing shuai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
甩 is an HSK 5 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.