Translingual

Han character

甩 (radical 101 用+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月手山 (BQU), four-corner 7721₂)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 755, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21704
• Dae Jaweon: page 1166, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 99, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7529

Chinese

Etymology

This is a late character, and the divergent readings in various topolects may or may not be cognate.

The Mandarin reading came from 摔 (shuāi, “to fling, to throw, to fall down”), which can be traced to *srut in Old Chinese. It can be compared with Tibetan རུད ‎(rud, “slip, that which has slipped down, falling mass, landslides”), རུད་རུད་པོ ‎(rud rud po, “loosened, disintegrated, rough”).

The Cantonese reading is probably unrelated, though it may reflect a descendant of the archaic pronunciation *rut and hence be cognate with Mandarin. Either way, it is evidently from the same source as Min Nan 甪 (lut, “to come off, to slip loose”), Zhuang lot ‎(“to come loose and drop off (due to loose tying)”), and Vietnamese lột ‎(“to peel, to strip off”). May be compared with Tibetan ལོད་པོ ‎(lod po, “relaxed, careless”), ལྷོད་པོ ‎(lhod po, “relaxed, loose, lax”), and the Chinese word family of 兌 (*lot, > 脫 (“to come off”), 蛻 (“exuviae”)). Unlikely to be related to 落 (luò, “to fall, to drop off”).

Pronunciation

Verb

甩

1. (Mandarin)
   1. to toss, to throw

      把石子甩出去  ―  bǎ shízǐ shuǎi chūqù  ―  throw the stone away

   2. to throw away, to discard
   3. to brush off, to abandon

      他被女友甩了。  ―  Tā bèi nǚyǒu shuǎi le.  ―  He was dumped by his girlfriend.

   4. to swing
   5. (dialectal) to take off, to remove
   6. (dialectal) to heed, to take notice of
2. (Cantonese)
   1. to come loose; to slip loose

      佢條鞋帶甩咗。 [Cantonese, trad.]

      佢条鞋带甩咗。 [Cantonese, simp.]

      Keoi⁵ tiu⁴ haai⁴ daai³lat¹ zo². [Jyutping]

      His shoelace came untied.

3. (Wu)
   1. to throw, to toss
   2. to strike; to box (about the ears)
   3. to shake off, to escape
   4. to wave, to rock

Synonyms

• (Min) 𫝺 (hiù, “to toss”)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: しゅつ (shutsu)

Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: soải, súy/suý

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