Kanji Detail for 墜 - "to fall, to crash, to decline"

墜

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning

墜 means "to fall, to crash, to decline."
1. Fall - To drop from a height.
2. Crash - To fall violently.
3. Decline - To deteriorate; to go down.
Words using 墜
- 墜落ついらく fall; crash (of an aircraft)
- 撃墜げきつい shooting down (an aircraft)
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- Verified meaning: to fall, to crash, to decline
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
Dictionary Citations

The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

crash; fall (down)

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

fall down, drop, sink, go to ruin

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to fall; to drop; to weigh down

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to drop, to fall down, to sink; heavy; weight

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

To fall. (Analects) "The way of Wen and Wu has not yet fallen to the ground."
Onyomi

tsui(ツイ)
Kunyomi

o.chiru(お-ちる)

o.tsu(お-つ)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)
Related Keywords

to fall to crash to decline drop collapse plummet plunge descend sink tumble slide stumble