duò

fall

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

隋 sound component

  Sound component

suí

  

Sui dynasty

Definitions

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duò

fall, sink, let fall; degenerate; to fall; to degenerate

Most common words with 墮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

堕落

to degrade

堕胎

induced abortion

to fall

自甘堕落

to let oneself go

如堕五里雾中

in a fog

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤojʔ

dwaX

duò

to fall

*l̥oj (W. dialect: *l̥- > x-)

xjwie

huī

destroy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.8236% of movies

2200th most common character in movies

2666th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

Unicode

U+58AE


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