墜

See also: 坠 and 墮

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 隊 + semantic 土

Han character

墜 (radical 32 土+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 弓人土 (NOG), four-corner 7810₄, composition ⿱隊土)

1. fall down, drop, sink, go to ruin

References

• KangXi: page 238, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5451
• Dae Jaweon: page 477, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 484, character 6
• Unihan data for U+589C

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Chinese

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trad.		墜
simp.		坠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuì (zhui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhui
• Min Nan (POJ): tūi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhuì
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chui⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juey
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zeoi⁶
    • Yale: jeuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕɵy̯²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhui
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡sʰu̯i⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tūi
    • Tâi-lô: tuī
    • IPA (Taipei): /tui³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tui²²/

Verb

墜

1. to fall due to a heavy weight involuntarily

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with 墮.

Compounds

• 天花亂墜
• 墜落
• 耳墜子
• 下墜
• 墜毀
• 墜機
• 墜地
• 搖搖欲墜

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Japanese

Kanji

墜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: つい (tsui)
• Kun: おちる (ochiru)

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Korean

Hanja

墜 (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

墜 (trụy, truỵ, đụi)

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