划掉 (劃掉)
huà diào
Pinyin

Definition

划掉 (劃掉)
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huà diào
  1. to cross out
  2. to cross off

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

掉
diào
  1. 1 to fall
  2. 2 to drop
  3. 3 to lag behind
  4. 4 to lose
  5. 5 to go missing
  6. 6 to reduce
  7. 7 fall (in prices)
  8. 8 to lose (value, weight etc)
  9. 9 to wag
  10. 10 to swing
  11. 11 to turn
  12. 12 to change
  13. 13 to exchange
  14. 14 to swap
  15. 15 to show off
  16. 16 to shed (hair)
  17. 17 (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
丢掉
diū diào
  1. 1 to lose
  2. 2 to throw away
  3. 3 to discard
  4. 4 to cast away
删掉
shān diào
  1. 1 to delete
剪掉
jiǎn diào
  1. 1 to cut off
  2. 2 to cut away
  3. 3 to trim
去掉
qù diào
  1. 1 to get rid of
  2. 2 to exclude
  3. 3 to eliminate
  4. 4 to remove
  5. 5 to delete
  6. 6 to strip out
  7. 7 to extract

Idioms (4)

天上不会掉馅饼
tiān shàng bù huì diào xiàn bǐng
  1. 1 there is no such thing as a free lunch (idiom)
天上掉馅饼
tiān shàng diào xiàn bǐng
  1. 1 a meat pie falls from the sky (idiom)
  2. 2 to have something fall into your lap
尾大不掉
wěi dà bù diào
  1. 1 large tail obstructs action (idiom); bottom heavy
  2. 2 fig. rendered ineffective by subordinates
掉书袋
diào shū dài
  1. 1 lit. to wave around one's bookbag (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to show off one's erudition
  3. 3 a person who does so

Sample Sentences

是啊，真是抢钱哪！像这样的闹区的停车格全都划掉，刚才我看到好几辆路边临停的都被开单了，我停到老远的地方，却还是要收费的。
shì a ，zhēn shì qiǎngqián nǎ ！xiàng zhèyàng de nàoqū de tíngchēgé quándōu huà diào ，gāngcái wǒ kàndào hǎojǐ liàng lùbiān lín tíng de dōu bèi kāi dān le ，wǒ tíng dào lǎo yuǎn de dìfang ，què háishì yào shōufèi de 。
Yes, they are totally robbing me. They have removed all the parking spaces in these downtown areas. I just saw a load of cars being fined for temporarily parking on the side of the road. I parked really far away, yet I still had to pay.
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