摔 (shuāi): to throw down, to fall, to drop and break
摔 (shuāi) is a Chinese character meaning “to throw down.” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 率 (phonetic). It ranks #2214 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 摔 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 down
- to fall
- to drop and break
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 摔倒verb | shuāi dǎo | to fall down |
| 摔跤verb | shuāi jiāo | to trip and fall |
| 摔交 | shuāi jiāo | variant of 摔跤 |
| 摔跟头 | shuāi gēn tou | to fall |
| 摔打verb | shuāi da | to knock |
| 摔门 | shuāi mén | to slam the door |
| 摔死verb | shuāi sǐ | to fall to one's death |
| 过肩摔 | guò jiān shuāi | (judo) shoulder throw |
| 摔断 | shuāi duàn | to break (e.g. bones) in a fall |
| 破碗破摔 | pò wǎn pò shuāi | lit. to smash a cracked pot |
| 摔伤 | shuāi shāng | to injure oneself in a fall |
| 摔破 | shuāi pò | to fall and smash into pieces |
| 假摔verb | jiǎ shuāi | (soccer) diving |
| 破罐破摔phrase | pò guàn pò shuāi | (lit.) to smash a pot just because it has a crack (idiom) |
| 摔角noun | shuāi jiǎo | to wrestle |
摔 appears in 18 compound words: 72 as the first character, 28 as the last, and 0 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 摔 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
摔照镜子，整理一下自己的仪容。
shuāi zhào jìng zǐ , zhěng lǐ yī xià zì jǐ de yí róng .
Look in the mirror and fix your appearance.
毒驾男自摔躲超商!见警瞎问“这警车谁的” 下秒遭大...
dú jià nán zì shuāi duǒ chāo shāng ! jiàn jǐng xiā wèn zhè jǐng chē shéi de xià miǎo zāo dà . . .
The drug driver man fell and hid in the supermarket! Seeing the police, he asked "who is this police car" and was hit by a big one in the next second...
福建女孩扶起骑车摔倒老人 遭索赔人民币22万缠讼近1年
fú jiàn nǚ hái fú qǐ qí chē shuāi dǎo lǎo rén zāo suǒ péi rén mín bì 2 2 wàn chán sòng jìn 1 nián
Fujian girl helped up and fell on a bicycle and fell down an old man and was sued for nearly 1 year with a claim of RMB 220,000
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
机车擦撞南横瓦筏哈桥护栏 骑士摔落送医仍不治
jī chē cā zhuàng nán héng wǎ 筏 hā qiáo hù lán qí shì shuāi luò sòng yī réng bù zhì
The locomotive collided with the guardrail of the Ha Bridge on the South Hengwa Raft, and the rider fell and was sent to the hospital and still died
6旬骑士游南横公路自撞护栏 摔50米边坡丧命...撞击瞬间曝光
6 xún qí shì yóu nán héng gōng lù zì zhuàng hù lán shuāi 5 0 mǐ biān pō sāng mìng . . . zhuàng jī shùn jiān pù guāng
A 60-year-old knight traveled to Nanheng Highway and crashed into a guardrail and fell 50 meters down the slope and died... The impact was instantaneously exposed
约翰和汤姆在摔角。
Yuēhàn hé Tāngmǔ zài shuāijiǎo.
John is wrestling with Tom.
汤姆失去了平衡摔落下来。
Tāngmǔ shīqù le pínghéng shuāi luò xiàlái.
Tom lost his balance and fell down.
你摔坏过你的眼镜吗？
Nǐ shuāihuài guo nǐ de yǎnjìng ma?
Have you ever broken your glasses?
谁告诉你们汤姆把腿摔断的？
Shéi gàosu nǐmen Tāngmǔ bǎ tuǐ shuāiduàn de?
Who told you Tom broke his leg?
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