丢

Tap the pinyin to hear it

to lose; to put aside; to throw

Sound it out + =

Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A lost 厶 jade 玉

Components 王厶

mislay · Heisig RSH #1915

千 thousand + wall

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

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

These characters use 丢 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
丢 sound part	diū	to lose; to discard
铥	diū	thulium