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HSK
7-9

to fall

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

zhui4 zhuì

Meaning


Primary

to fall

Alternatives

fall, falls, fell, falling, fallen, to drop, drop, drops, dropped

Mnemonic


[zhu-] George Costanza is in the [4] bathroom of the [-(e)i] beach house by the bay, taking a bath in the bathtub. 人 Persons keep on coming in and out of the bathroom as he soaks in the bath, each of them 坠 falling into the bathtub after slipping on the sandy 土 soil that is on the tile floor. Soon there is a 阝 hill of 人 persons on top of George in the bathtub, all wearing bathing suits. Some of them start 坠 to fall off and out the bathroom window. George mumbles to himself that his life has 坠 fallen to a new low.

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