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墮

墮

See also: 堕 and 墜

Translingual

Han character

墮 (radical 32 土+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 弓月土 (NBG) or X弓月土 (XNBG), four-corner 74104, composition ⿱隋土)

  1. fall, sink, let fall
  2. degenerate

References

  • KangXi: page 239, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5481
  • Dae Jaweon: page 478, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 484, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+58AE

Chinese

trad. 墮
simp. 堕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鬌 *ʔl'oːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *l'ol
隋 *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *ljol
墮 *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *hlol
媠 *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːls
橢 *l̥ʰoːlʔ
嫷 *l̥ʰoːls, *l'oːlʔ
毻 *l̥ʰoːls, *l̥ʰoːds
堶 *l'oːl
憜 *l'oːlʔ
惰 *l'oːlʔ, *l'oːls
嶞 *l'oːlʔ
髓 *slolʔ
瀡 *slolʔ, *slols
隨 *ljol
隓 *hlol
隳 *hlol
撱 *lolʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *hlol) : phonetic 隋 ‎(OC *l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *ljol) + semantic 土.

Pronunciation

Verb

墮

  1. to fall
  2. Alternative form of 隳

Usage notes

  • Not to be confused with 墜／坠 (zhuì).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

墮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

墮 • ‎(ta) (hangeul 타, revised ta, McCune-Reischauer t'a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

墮 (đoạ, đụi, doạ, dụa)

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