Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- pāo
English
- throw (away), abandon, reject
- to throw
- to toss
- to fling
- to cast
- to abandon
- to throw; to toss; to lob; to send something through the air with force going upward, especially by a sudden movement of the arm
- to abandon; to leave something alone
- to bluff; to deter or frighten by pretense or a mere show of strength
粵語
- 用手部嘅力,從下而上,喺空中傳遞一樣物件
- 捨棄、揼低啲嘢
- 拋浪頭。指扮哂勁咁去嚇人、虛張聲勢。
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 拋
- 拋棄paau1 hei3
to abandon
- 拋開paau1 hoi1
to throw out
- 拋售paau1 sau6
to dump (selling abroad more cheaply than cost price at home)
- 拋光paau1 gwong1
to polish; to burnish
- 拋離paau1 lei4
to desert
- 拋錨paau1 naau4
to drop anchor
- 拋磚paau1 zyun1
to get the ball rolling (abbr. for 拋磚引玉|抛砖引玉[pao1 zhuan1 yin3 yu4])
- 拋生藕paau1 saang1 ngau5
(Cantonese) (of a woman) to direct a coquettish look, comment or gesture at a guy
- 拋窒paau1 zat6
to intimidate [colloquial]
- 拋書包paau1 syu1 baau1
literally: throw the schoolbag, which means a person is pedantic or try to showoff with one's knowledge
- 拋網paau1 mong5
netting; to cast the net
- 拋體paau1 tai2
projectile
- 拋臉paau1 lim5
to lose face
- 拋波paau1 bo1
to shirk one's responsibility; to pass the buck
- 拋射paau1 se6
to throw
- 拋頭露面paau1 tau4 lou6 min6
to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly)
- 拋補paau1 bou2
cover (i.e. insurance against loss in financial deals)
- 拋卻paau1 koek3
to discard
- 鬥拋dau3 paau1
to show off one's moves before a fight; to argue using foul language [colloquial]
- 拋撒paau1 saat3
to sprinkle
- 拋物線paau1 mat6 sin3
parabola
- 拋灑paau1 saa2
to drip
- 拋浪頭paau1 long6 tau4
(slang) to bluff or to fake one's abilities or intentions, usually in an attempt to intimidate someone
- 拋鑊paau1 wok6
to toss food in a wok, a cooking technique used by some chefs