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下坠 (xià zhuì) — (of objects) to fall, to drop, to droop; (medicine) to experience tenesmus (urgent feeling of needing to defecate)

Definition

下坠 (xiàzhuì) covers a physical downward fall or droop, and a medical sense of tenesmus. More neutral than 坠落 (which emphasizes a drop from a height); for prices/numbers, use 下跌.

verb
(of objects) to fallto dropto droop(medicine) to experience tenesmus (urgent feeling of needing to defecate)

Examples

  • 下坠，。
    Xuán yá shàng de shí kuài tū rán xià zhuì, xìng hǎo wú rén shòu shāng.
    The rocks on the cliff suddenly fell, luckily no one was hurt.
  • 下坠，。
    Huàn zhě miáo shù fù bù chí xù xià zhuì, yī shēng jiàn yì zuò jìn yí bù jiǎn chá.
    The patient describes a persistent tenesmus in the abdomen; the doctor recommends further examination.
  • ，下坠。
    Shòu jīng jì yǐng xiǎng, gāi jì dù xiāo shòu é chéng xià zhuì tài shì.
    Affected by the economy, the quarter's sales showed a downward trend.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

下xiàfall
坠zhuìfall

Both 下 and 坠 carry the idea of falling, so it describes something dropping or sagging downward.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

下 is drawn as a short horizontal line below a long curved line.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
土土tǔ
Sound part声符shēngfú
队
队duì坠zhuì
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

坠 combines 土, an earth-related part, with 队, which gives the sound.

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