抛

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to throw; to toss; to fling; to cast; to abandon

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

hand

Components 扌九力

toss · Heisig RSH #1988

fingers + baseball + muscle

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
双曲抛物面	shuāng qū pāo wù miàn	(geometry) hyperbolic paraboloid
抛头露面	pāo tóu lù miàn	to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly)
抛物面	pāo wù miàn	(geometry) paraboloid
抛物线	pāo wù xiàn	parabola
抛射体	pāo shè tǐ	projectile
抛射物	pāo shè wù	projectile
抛补套利	pāo bǔ tào lì	covered arbitrage
抛家弃子	pāo jiā qì zǐ	(of a parent) to abandon one's family
抛夫弃子	pāo fū qì zǐ	to abandon one's husband and child(ren)
抛体	pāo tǐ	projectile
抛下	pāo xià	to throw down; to dump; to abandon; thrown down
抛出	pāo chū	to toss; to throw out
抛开	pāo kāi	to throw out; to get rid of
打抛	dǎ pāo	holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum) (loanword from Thai "kaphrao") (used as an attributive in …
日抛	rì pāo	(attributive) daily disposable; intended for one-day use
抛光	pāo guāng	to polish; to burnish
抛空	pāo kōng	to short-sell (finance)
打抛猪	dǎ pāo zhū	stir-fried pork with basil; pork phat kaphrao
抛射	pāo shè	to throw; to shoot
抛费	pāo fèi	to waste; to squander