掉 (diào) means To fall. Below are 7 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
我的手机 掉 在地上了。
Wǒ de shǒujī diào zài dì shàng le.
My phone fell on the ground.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 掉
秋天树上的叶子都 掉 了。
Qiūtiān shù shàng de yèzi dōu diào le.
In autumn the leaves all fall from the trees.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 掉
杯子 掉 在地上摔破了。
Bēizi diào zài dì shàng shuāi pò le.
The cup fell on the floor and broke.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 破
风一吹，叶子就 掉 了。
Fēng yì chuī, yèzi jiù diào le.
As soon as the wind blows, the leaves fall.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 叶子
From the graded readers
也许他是对的。可是有些东西被扔 掉 以后，就再也找不回来了。
yěxǔ tā shì duì de / dì. kěshì yǒuxiē dōngxī bèi rēngdiào yǐhòu, jiù zài yě zhǎo bù huílai.
Maybe he's right. But some things, once thrown away, can never be got back.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
是一个女孩子，她说：“你的手机 掉 在图书馆的椅子下边了。”
shì yīgè nǚhái zǐ, tā shuō:" nǐ de shǒujī diào zài túshūguǎn de / dì yǐ zǐ xià biān le / liǎo / liào."
It was a young woman. She said, "Your phone had fallen under a chair in the library."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Losing My Phone
From the travel phrasebook
Questions about 掉
How is 掉 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 掉 (diào, "To fall"), 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 掉 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 掉 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 掉 an HSK word?
Yes — 掉 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 掉?
The dictionary page for 掉 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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