DROP    掉

DISCARD AND CAUSE TO FALL.
LET FALLLET GO OFLOSE ONE'S GRIP ONRELEASEUNHANDRELINQUISH
Old Chinese Criteria
??? It is very curious that I have still not found a good word for this apparently so natural concept. Words like qì 棄 "discard" do not really focus on the discarded object falling to the ground.
Modern Chinese Criteria
掉 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Antonym
  • LIFTDISPLACE so as to CAUSE TO RISE, TYPICALLY USING ONE'S HANDS.
See also
  • FALLMOVE DOWN PULLED by the FORCE of one's WEIGHT.
  • SEND DOWNCAUSE TO MOVE DOWN.
Hypernym
  • DISCARD　DISPLACE something so as to VOLUNTARILY CAUSE ONESELF to LACK it. (anc: 12/0, child: 4)
  • DISPLACE　CAUSE to MOVE. (anc: 11/0, child: 28)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)

Words (1 items)

放  fàng OC: paŋs MC: pi̯ɐŋ 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • vtoNto drop; to release from one's hand