丢
to lose; to put aside; to throw
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,831 U+4E22
How 丢 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A lost 厶 jade 玉
How to remember it
mislay · Heisig RSH #1915
千 thousand + wall
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 丢 as their sound component
These characters all use 丢 (diū) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丢 sound component | diū | to lose; to discard |
| 铥 | diū | thulium |
Words containing 丢
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 丢三落四 | diū sān là sì | forgetful; empty-headed |
| 丢人现眼 | diū rén xiàn yǎn | to make an exhibition of oneself; to be a disgrace |
| 丢面子 | diū miàn zi | to lose face |
| 丢到家 | diū dào jiā | to lose (face) utterly |
| 丢番图方程 | Diū fān tú fāng chéng | (math.) Diophantine equation |
| 酸不溜丢 | suān bu liū diū | sour; acrid; (of a person) embittered |
| 丢眉弄色 | diū méi nòng sè | to wink at sb |
| 灰不溜丢 | huī bu liū diū | gloomy and dull (idiom); boring and gray; unpleasantly murky |
| 丢人 | diū rén | to lose face |
| 丢手 | diū shǒu | to wash one's hands of sth; to have nothing further to do with sth |
| 丢下 | diū xià | to abandon |
| 丢开 | diū kāi | to cast or put aside; to forget for a while |
| 丢包 | diū bāo | (computing) packet loss; to lose a packet |
| 丢失 | diū shī | to lose; to misplace |
| 丢份子 | diū fèn zi | (coll.) to lose face; to be disgraced |
| 丢命 | diū mìng | to die |
| 丢官 | diū guān | (of an official) to lose one's job |
| 走丢 | zǒu diū | to wander off; to get lost |
| 丢眉丢眼 | diū méi diū yǎn | to wink at sb |
| 丢脸 | diū liǎn | to lose face; humiliation |