Chinese symbol for “wag”

掉

diào

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

The closest CC-CEDICT match for wag is 掉 (diào), defined as: to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce.

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Characters and stroke order

掉 diào

to drop, to fall, to remove

radical 64 ⼿ · 11 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 掉.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
卖掉 (賣掉)	mài diào	to sell off
丢掉 (丟掉)	diū diào	to lose; to throw away
干掉 (幹掉)	gàn diào	to get rid of
杀掉 (殺掉)	shā diào	to kill
吃掉	chī diào	to eat up; to consume
去掉	qù diào	to get rid of; to exclude

See also: Japanese symbol for “wag”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.