抛 — Chinese character
抛
pāo
to abandon, to throw away; to fling, to toss
- Pinyin
- pāo
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 扌 九 力
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌
- Traditional
- 拋
- Japanese
- 抛 as a kanji
Common words with 抛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 抛弃 (拋棄) | pāo qì | to abandon; to discard |
| 抛开 (拋開) | pāo kāi | to throw out; to get rid of |
| 抛出 (拋出) | pāo chū | to toss; to throw out |
| 抛售 (拋售) | pāo shòu | to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home) |
| 抛锚 (拋錨) | pāo máo | to drop anchor; (fig.) (of a car etc) to break down |
| 抛光 (拋光) | pāo guāng | to polish; to burnish |
| 抛物线 (拋物線) | pāo wù xiàn | parabola |
| 抛射 (拋射) | pāo shè | to throw; to shoot |
| 抛离 (拋離) | pāo lí | to desert; to leave |
| 抛砖引玉 (拋磚引玉) | pāo zhuān yǐn yù | lit. throw out a brick and get jade thrown back (idiom); fig. to attract others' interest or suggestions by putting forward one's own modest ideas to get the ba |
| 抛掷 (拋擲) | pāo zhì | to throw; to toss |
| 抛头露面 (拋頭露面) | pāo tóu lù miàn | to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly) |
English words written with 抛
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