zhuì

fall down

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

队 sound component

  Sound component

duì

  

team

Evolution

坠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坠 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
坠 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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zhuì

fall down, drop, sink, go to ruin; to fall; to drop; to weigh down

Most common words with 坠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to fall

坠毁

(of an airplane etc) to fall to the ground and crash

坠落

to fall

坠入

to drop into

坠机

airplane crash

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.7069% of movies

1912th most common character in movies

2279th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+5760


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