墜

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See also: 坠, and 墮
墜 U+589C, 墜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-589C
← 墛
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 墝 →

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

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 		/ɖˠiuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɖʷᵚiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȡiuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɖjwiH/
Li
Rong 		/ȡjuiH/
Wang
Li 		/ȡwiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȡʱwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhuì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zeoi6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 墜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhuì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ drwijH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m.lru-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. * 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

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

Usage notes

  • Not to be confused with 墮／堕 (duò).

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 墜
Kyūjitai
[1]
墜󠄁
墜+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
墜󠄄
墜+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

墜

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

References

  1. ^ “墜”, in 漢字ぺディア‎ (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:

Wikisource

墜 (eumhun 떨어질 추 (tteoreojil chu))

  1. hanja form? of 추 (“fall”)

Compounds

References

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

Vietnamese

Han character

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

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