坠

See also: 墜 and 堕

坠 U+5760, 坠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5760 ← 坟 [U+575F] CJK Unified Ideographs 坡 → [U+5761]

Translingual

Han character

坠 (radical 32, 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓人土 (NOG) or X弓人土 (XNOG), composition ⿱队土)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 227, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 429, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5760

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 队 + semantic 土.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 坠 – see 墜 (“to fall due to a heavy weight involuntarily; to fall down, drop, sink, go to ruin”). (This character, 坠, is the simplified form of 墜.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.