摔跤

Chinese

		throw on ground; to fall	bones of leg; wrestle
simp. and trad. (摔跤)		摔	跤
alternative forms		摔交

摔跤手: a wrestler

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuāijiāo

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄞ ㄐㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seot¹ gaau¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): soai-kau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuāijiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄞ ㄐㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuaijiao
    • Wade–Giles: shuai¹-chiao¹
    • Yale: shwāi-jyāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuaijiau
    • Palladius: шуайцзяо (šuajczjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯aɪ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seot¹ gaau¹
    • Yale: sēut gāau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soet⁷ gaau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêd¹ gao¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵt̚⁵ kaːu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soai-kau
    • Tâi-lô: suai-kau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: soai'kaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /suai⁴⁴⁻²² kau⁴⁴/

Verb

摔⫽跤 (verb-object)

1. to fall down; to be tripped over; to trip and fall

   摔了一跤  ―  shuāi le yī jiāo  ―  to trip and fall (once)

2. (sports) to wrestle
   • 2014, 彼得·约翰森 [Pete Johnson], translated by 小唐, 《爸妈太过分·我被全班孤立了》, Hefei: 安徽少年儿童出版社, →ISBN, page 3:

     遗憾的是，外公从来没跟我摔过跤。 [MSC, simp.]
     遺憾的是，外公從來沒跟我摔過跤。 [MSC, trad.]

     Yíhàn de shì, wàigōng cónglái méi gēn wǒ shuāi guò jiāo. [Pinyin]

     What I regret is that Grandpa has never wrestled with me.

3. (figurative) to trip up; to suffer a setback

Noun

摔跤

1. (sports) wrestling

Synonyms

• 摔角 (shuāijiǎo)