墮

See also: 堕 and 墜

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

墮 (radical 32 土+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 弓月土 (NBG), X弓月土 (XNBG), four-corner 7410₄, composition ⿱隋土)

1. fall, sink, let fall
2. degenerate

References

• KangXi: page 239, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5481
• Dae Jaweon: page 478, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 484, character 3
• Unihan data for U+58AE

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Chinese

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trad.		墮
simp.		堕

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duò (duo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): do⁶, fai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: duò
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade-Giles: tuo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duoh
    • IPA ^(key): /tu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: do⁶, fai¹
    • Yale: doh, fāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: do⁶, fai¹
    • IPA ^(key): /tɔː²²/, /fɐi̯⁵⁵/

Verb

墮

1. to fall
2. Alternative form of 隳

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with 墜.

Compounds

• 墮馬
• 墮胎
• 呱呱墮地
• 墮落

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Japanese

Kanji

墮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: だ (da)
• Kun: くずれ (kuzureru), くずす (kuzusu), おちる (ochiru)

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Korean

Hanja

墮 (ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune-Reischauer t'a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

墮 (đọa, đoạ, đụi, doạ, dụa)

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