墜 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. (自動詞)おちる。
  2. (他動詞)おとす。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「土」+音符「隊」。「おちる」を意味する漢語{墜}を表す字。もと「隊」が{墜}を表す字であったが、「土」を加えた。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

crash, fall (down)

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ツイJHS
Kun (native)
  • お(ちる)
  • お(つ)
Other languages
  • 拼音zhui4
  • 한글chu
  • Hán-ViệtTrụy

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
15 strokes
Radical
土(つち)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+589C

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱隊土

Words using this kanji

  • 墜落ついらく高い所から落ちること。飛行していたものが失速して地面などに落下すること。 さかんな状態から急に没落すること。fall, crash (of an aircraft)
  • 墜死ついし高所から落下、墜落して死ぬこと。falling to one's death
  • 墜落死ついらくしdeath by falling
  • 墜落事故ついらくじこplane crash
  • 墜落場所ついらくばしょcrash site (esp. aircraft)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(9 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-12-3
Four Corner
7810.4
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3b11.7
Heisig
1404
Nelson
1132