Drop in Chinese
to drop · HSK 4
掉
他的手机掉在地上了。 His phone fell on the ground.
Other ways to say drop
How do you say drop in Chinese?
Drop in Chinese is 掉 (diào). You can also say 降 (jiàng), 落 (luò), 降低 (jiàng dī), 下降 (xià jiàng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.