抛 (pāo): to throw, to toss, to fling
抛 (pāo) is a Chinese character meaning “to throw.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic). It ranks #1678 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 抛 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to throw
- to toss
- to fling
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 抛弃 | pāo qì | to abandon |
| 抛开 | pāo kāi | to throw out |
| 抛锚 | pāo máo | to drop anchor |
| 抛售 | pāo shòu | to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home) |
| 抛光 | pāo guāng | to polish |
| 抛头露面 | pāo tóu lù miàn | to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly) |
| 抛物线 | pāo wù xiàn | parabola |
| 抛洒 | pāo sǎ | to drip |
| 抛砖引玉 | pāo zhuān yǐn yù | lit. throw out a brick and get jade thrown back (idiom) |
| 抛物面 | pāo wù miàn | (geometry) paraboloid |
| 抛掷 | pāo zhì | to throw |
| 抛家弃子 | pāo jiā qì zǐ | (of a parent) to abandon one's family |
| 双曲抛物面 | shuāng qū pāo wù miàn | (geometry) hyperbolic paraboloid |
| 抛夫弃子 | pāo fū qì zǐ | to abandon one's husband and child(ren) |
| 抛出 | pāo chū | to toss |
抛 appears in 38 compound words: 92 as the first character, 3 as the last, and 5 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 抛 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Showing 2 of 3 idioms containing 抛.
Example Sentences
请抛出你的证件，配合我们的工作。
qǐng pāo chū nǐ de zhèng jiàn , pèi gě wǒ men de gōng zuò .
Please present your identification and cooperate with our investigation.
俄央行为何此时大举抛售黄金?30万盎司减持背后 中俄贵金属贸...
é yāng háng wéi hé cǐ shí dà jǔ pāo shòu huáng jīn ? 3 0 wàn 盎 sī jiǎn chí bèi hòu zhōng é guì jīn shǔ mào . . .
Why is the Bank of Russia selling gold aggressively at this time? Behind the 300,000-ounce reduction of holdings Sino-Russian precious metals trade...
乐天女孩抛震撼弹!韩籍“六本柱”成形 一次补齐6外...
lè tiān nǚ hái pāo zhèn hàn dàn ! hán jí liù běn zhù chéng xíng yī cì bǔ qí 6 wài . . .
Lotte girls throw shock bombs! The "six pillars" of Korean nationality took shape and made up for 6 other things at once...
8岁男骑车游南横 撞护栏抛飞摔溪底亡
8 suì nán qí chē yóu nán héng zhuàng hù lán pāo fēi shuāi xī de wáng
An 8-year-old male rode a bicycle to the south and crashed into a guardrail and fell to the bottom of the stream and died
恶劣!男疑拐浪浪回家 从5楼抛下画面曝
è liè ! nán yí guǎi làng làng huí jiā cóng 5 lóu pāo xià huà miàn pù
Bad! The man was suspected of abducting Langlang home and dropped the picture from the 5th floor to expose
立法院迁址“新地点”! 韩国瑜抛“征收圆山饭店”
lì fǎ yuàn qiān zhǐ xīn dì diǎn ! hán guó 瑜 pāo zhēng shōu yuán shān fàn diàn
The Legislative Yuan moved to a "new location"! Han Kuo-yu threw "expropriation of the Yuanshan Hotel"
野兔被乌龟抛了在后头。
Yětù bèi wūguī pāo le zàihòu tóu.
The hare was overtaken by the tortoise.
她们被抛弃在一座荒岛上。
Tāmen bèi pāoqì zài yī zuò huāngdǎo shàng.
They were marooned on a desert isle.
他不会抛下落难的朋友不管。
Tā bù huì pāoxià luònàn de péngyou bù guǎn.
He could not forsake his friend in trouble.
我们的昨晚车抛锚了。
Wǒmen de zuówǎn chē pāomáo le.
Our car broke down last night.
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