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HSK
7-9

drop

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

zhui4 zhuì

Meaning


Primary

drop

Alternatives

fall, falls, fell, 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 dropping sandy 土 soil from their pockets onto the tile floor. Soon that builds up into a 阝 hill of 坠 dropped sandy 土 soil, and George wonders why everyone keeps on coming in and 坠 dropping their soil here.

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