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
Eastern Min (BUC): dôi
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): tūi / thūi

(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
  - Hakka Romanization System: cui
  - Hagfa Pinyim: cui⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰu̯i⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: dôi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tui²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (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/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thūi
  - Tâi-lô: thuī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tui
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰui³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰui²²/
- (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	墜
Old Chinese	/*l'uds/

Definitions

墜

to fall down; to drop; to sink; to go to ruin
to hang down; to weigh down; to fall due to a heavy weight
hanging object

Usage notes

Not to be confused with 墮／堕 (duò).

Compounds

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, 2015–2024

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 墜 (MC drwijH).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

墜

Wikisource

墜 (eumhun 떨어질 추 (tteoreojil chu))

hanja form^? of 추 (“fall”)

Compounds

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

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, 2015–2024

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