墜

See also: 坠 and 墮

墜	U+589C, 墜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-589C

← 墛
[U+589B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

墝 →
[U+589D]

Translingual

Han character

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

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 238, character 22
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5451
Dae Jaweon: page 477, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 484, character 6
Unihan data for U+589C

Chinese

trad.		墜
simp.		坠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (遂) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
隊	*l'uːds
邃	*sluds
譢	*sluds
遂	*ljuds
隧	*ljuds
燧	*ljuds
襚	*ljuds
旞	*ljuds
璲	*ljuds
檖	*ljuds
澻	*ljuds
鐆	*ljuds
鐩	*ljuds
穟	*ljuds
墜	*l'uds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'uds): phonetic 隊 (OC *l'uːds) + semantic 土.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhuì (zhui⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chhui / zui

(Hailu, HRS): chui^˖ / zhui^ˇ
Eastern Min (BUC): dôi
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): dui⁵ / tui⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thūi / tūi

(Teochew, Peng'im): dui⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhuì
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhuèi
  - Wade–Giles: chui⁴
  - Yale: jwèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juey
  - Palladius: чжуй (čžuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zeoi⁶
  - Yale: jeuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: zêu⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhui / zui
  - Hakka Romanization System: cui / zui
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cui⁴ / zui⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰu̯i⁵⁵/, /zu̯i⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: chui^˖ / zhui^ˇ
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃʰui³³/, /t͡ʃui¹¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dôi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tui²⁴²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dui⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: dūi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tui¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: dui⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tui²¹/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tui⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: tūi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰui¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: tui⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰui²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thūi
  - Tâi-lô: thuī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tui
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰui³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰui²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tūi
  - Tâi-lô: tuī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: dui
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tui³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tui²²/

Note:

thūi - “to fall down; hanging down; slightly heavy”;
tūi - “to fall down (Xiamen, Taiwan, Zhangzhou); hanging (Taiwan)”.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: dui⁶
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tŭi
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /tui³⁵/

Middle Chinese: drwijH

Rime
Character	墜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直類切
Baxter	drwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖˠiuɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖʷᵚi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiuɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖjwi^H/
Li Rong	/ȡjui^H/
Wang Li	/ȡwi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱwi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*m.lru[t]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*l'uds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	墜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuì
Middle Chinese	‹ drwij^H ›
Old Chinese	/*m.lru[t]-s/
English	fall down
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	墜
Reading #	1/1
No.	12159
Phonetic component	遂
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*l'uds/

Definitions

墜

to fall down; to drop; to sink; to go to ruin
墜馬／坠马 ― zhuìmǎ ― to fall off a horse
to hang down; to weigh down; to fall due to a heavy weight
桃子把樹枝墜得彎彎得。 [MSC, trad.]
桃子把树枝坠得弯弯得。 [MSC, simp.]
Táozǐ bǎ shùzhī zhuì dé wānwān dé. [Pinyin]
The peaches weighed the branches down.
hanging object
耳墜／耳坠 ― ěrzhuì ― ear pendants
(Hokkien) hanging down
(Quanzhou Hokkien) slightly heavy (often reduplicated)

Usage notes

Not to be confused with 墮／堕 (duò).

Compounds

下墜 / 下坠 (xiàzhuì)
不墜 / 不坠
亂墜天花 / 乱坠天花
偏墜 / 偏坠
加膝墜淵 / 加膝坠渊
呱呱墜地 / 呱呱坠地 (gūgūzhuìdì)
執鞭墜鐙 / 执鞭坠镫
墜入愛河 / 坠入爱河
墜典 / 坠典
墜地 / 坠地 (zhuìdì)
墜子 / 坠子
墜子戲 / 坠子戏
墜樓 / 坠楼 (zhuìlóu)
墜機 / 坠机 (zhuìjī)
墜歡 / 坠欢
墜歡重拾 / 坠欢重拾
墜毀 / 坠毁 (zhuìhuǐ)
墜緒 / 坠绪
墜腳 / 坠脚
墜茵落溷 / 坠茵落溷
墜落 / 坠落 (zhuìluò)
墜蹬 / 坠蹬
墜馬 / 坠马 (zhuìmǎ)
天花亂墜 / 天花乱坠 (tiānhuāluànzhuì)
天花墜地 / 天花坠地
廢墜 / 废坠
扇墜兒 / 扇坠儿
搖搖欲墜 / 摇摇欲坠 (yáoyáoyùzhuì)
昭王墜屨 / 昭王坠屦
月墜花折 / 月坠花折
民墜塗炭 / 民坠涂炭
河南墜子 / 河南坠子 (Hénán zhuìzi)
流沙墜簡 / 流沙坠简
瓶墜簪折 / 瓶坠簪折
磨扇墜手 / 磨扇坠手
累墜 / 累坠
耳墜子 / 耳坠子 (ěrzhuìzi)
自墜陷阱 / 自坠陷阱
遺簪墜屨 / 遗簪坠屦
隕墜 / 陨坠

Japanese

Shinjitai	墜
Kyūjitai ^[1]	墜󠄁 墜+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	墜󠄄 墜+`󠄄`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

墜

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ずい (zui)^{←づい (dui, historical)}
Kan-on: つい (tsui, Jōyō)
Kun: おちる (ochiru, 墜ちる)、おとす (otosu, 墜とす)

References

^ “墜”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 墜 (MC drwijH).

Hanja

Wikisource

墜 (eumhun 떨어질 추 (tteoreojil chu))

hanja form^? of 추 (“fall”)

Compounds

격추 (擊墜, gyeokchu)
실추 (失墜, silchu)
추락 (墜落, churak)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

墜: Hán Nôm readings: trụy/truỵ, trụy/truỵ, đụi

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[1] “墜”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

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