甩

甩 (Kangxi radical 101, 用+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月手山 (BQU), four-corner 7721₂, composition ⿻月乚(GHTK) or ⿻⿵冂𠄠乚(J))

• 𫝺

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

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”).

甩

1. (Mandarin, Hokkien, Wu) to toss; to throw; to fling

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

2. (Mandarin) to throw away; to discard
3. (Mandarin) to brush off; to abandon

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

4. (Mandarin) to swing

   甩尾巴  ―  shuǎi wěiba  ―  to wag one's tail

5. (dialectal Mandarin) to take off; to remove
6. (dialectal Mandarin) to heed; to take notice of
7. (dialectal Mandarin, of insects, zoology, etc.) to lay (eggs)
8. (Beijing) to play (cards)
9. (Beijing) Short for 甩賣／甩卖 (shuǎimài, “to sell at cheap prices”).
10. (Beijing) to scold
11. (Sichuanese) perturbed; uneasy
12. (Cantonese) to come loose; to come off

    佢條鞋帶甩咗。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    佢条鞋带甩咗。 [Cantonese, simp.]

    keoi⁵ tiu⁴ haai⁴ daai^3-2 lat¹ zo². [Jyutping]

    His shoelace came untied.

13. (Cantonese) to sense by touch

    甩牌 [Cantonese]  ―  lat¹ paai^4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to sense tile by touch

14. (dialectal Cantonese) to fall down
15. (Wu) to strike; to box (about the ears)
16. (Wu) to shake off; to escape
17. (Wu) to wave; to rock
18. (Hokkien) to sprinkle; to spray
19. (Hokkien, vulgar) to heed; to pay attention to

• (to throw):

• (to swing): 掄／抡 (lún)
• (to fall down):

• (to heed):

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): しゅつ (shutsu)

甩: Hán Nôm readings: soải, súy/suý

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