墜 – crash, fall (down)

15 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1466 in newspaper frequencyN1 vocabulary

The kanji 墜 means crash, fall (down). Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ツイ (tsui); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is お.ちる、お.つ (ochiru, otsu). It is written with 15 strokes, under radical 土 (no. 32).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ツイ	tsui
Kun’yomi	お.ちる	ochiru
Kun’yomi	お.つ	otsu

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 土 (Kangxi radical 32). Components: 土・并・豕・阡.

Words using 墜

墜落ついらくfall

Example sentences

上へ昇れば昇るほど、それだけ墜落の程度は大きくなる。

The higher you climb, the greater the fall.

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Kanji with the same radical

地場報在増基土境域型均圧壊城執坂

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.