丢 (diū) means Lose (throw). Below are 12 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这么重要的东西别 丢 了。
Zhème zhòngyào de dōngxi bié diū le.
Do not lose something this important.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 丢
今天真倒霉，钱包 丢 了。
Jīntiān zhēn dǎoméi, qiánbāo diū le.
What bad luck today, I lost my wallet.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 倒霉
他觉得当众出错很 丢 人。
Tā juéde dāngzhòng chūcuò hěn diū rén.
He felt it was humiliating to make a mistake in public.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 丢人
家里进了贼， 丢 了些东西。
Jiā lǐ jìn le zéi, diū le xiē dōngxi.
A thief got into the house and some things were stolen.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贼
她怎么狠心 丢 下孩子不管呢？
Tā zěnme hěn xīn diū xià háizi bù guǎn ne?
How could she be so hard-hearted as to abandon the child?
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 狠心
他做事 丢 三落四，总是忘带东西。
Tā zuòshì diūsān làsì, zǒngshì wàng dài dōngxi.
He is scatterbrained and always forgets to bring things.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 丢三落四
出门前检查一遍，免得 丢 三落四。
Chūmén qián jiǎnchá yí biàn, miǎnde diūsān làsì.
Check once before you leave so you don't forget half of it.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 丢三落四
考砸了也不 丢 人，重要的是别放弃。
Kǎo zá le yě bù diū rén, zhòngyào de shì bié fàngqì.
Failing an exam is no disgrace; what matters is not giving up.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 丢人
幸好我做了备份，不然稿子就全 丢 了。
Xìnghǎo wǒ zuò le bèifèn, bùrán gǎozi jiù quán diū le.
Luckily I had made a backup, or the whole draft would have been lost.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 备份
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From the graded readers
上个星期，我的手机 丢 了。
shànggexīngqī, wǒ de(possessive) shǒujī diū le / liǎo / liào.
Last week I lost my phone.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
From the travel phrasebook
Words that contain 丢
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 丢
How is 丢 used in a sentence?
This page shows 12 sentences using 丢 (diū, "Lose (throw)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 丢 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 丢 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 丢 an HSK word?
Yes — 丢 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 丢?
The dictionary page for 丢 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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