墜
plummet; crash; fall (down)
15 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1466.
Readings
- ツイ (on reading): 撃墜 (げきつい) shooting down (an aircraft); 墜落 (ついらく) fall
- おちる (kun reading)
- おつ (kun reading): 巨星墜つ (きょせいおつ) a great man dies
Components
- 隊
- 土
- 丷 radical horns, inverted eight
- 土 radical earth
- ⻖ radical mound; hill, left-side form of 阜
- 豕 radical pig
Words using 墜
- 撃墜 (げきつい) shooting down (an aircraft)
- 墜落 (ついらく) fall
- 墜落事故 (ついらくじこ) plane crash
- 失墜 (しっつい) abasement
- 墜死 (ついし) falling to one's death
- 巨星墜つ (きょせいおつ) a great man dies
9 words in all.