HSK 6 · Verbs

坠 zhuì “to fall” in Chinese

Traditional 墜

What 坠 means

  1. to fall
  2. to drop
  3. pendant
  4. to weigh down

How to say 坠

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale坠zhuì4th tone, falling

坠 in a sentence

  1. 多么漂亮的小吊坠啊！

    Duōme piàoliang de xiǎo diàozhuì a!

    What a pretty little pendant!

    Sentence #13753112 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 让我们坠入爱河。

    Ràng wǒmen zhuìrù àihé.

    Let’s fall in love.

    Sentence #3783459 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 当心坠落。

    Dāngxīn zhuìluò.

    Beware of falling.

    Sentence #6089694 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 坠 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 坠 (zhuì) with each of its parts in a different colour
坠zhuìto fall
  • 队team · duìSound part
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 队 (duì) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhuì.

How to write 坠

坠 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

坠 (zhuì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 坠 (zhuì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 坠

More words: Common Verbs

终止zhōngzhǐ · to terminate拄zhǔ · to lean on (a stick)拽zhuài · to pull转移zhuǎnyí · to transfer着手zhuóshǒu · to set about注视zhùshì · to gaze at铸造zhùzào · to cast (metal)揍zòu · to beat up

FAQs

坠 (zhuì) means “to fall” or “to drop”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhuì: zhuì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 坠 is written 墜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 坠 from the suggestions. Typing zhui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
坠 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.