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颓

頹
tuí
adjective #39,263

Meanings

  1. 1 dejected; dispirited
  2. 2 to crumble; to collapse; to decline

Examples

失业后他一直很颓废。
Shīyè hòu tā yìzhí hěn tuífèi.
He has been listless and dejected since losing his job.
断壁颓垣，一片废墟。
Duànbìtuíyuán, yípiàn fèixū.
The old walls have crumbled and the place is in ruins.

Tips

usage
Two threads: a mental one — 颓废 (decadent, dispirited), 颓丧 (dejected); and a physical one — 颓 walls crumbling, as in 断壁颓垣 (broken walls and ruins).

Components

radical
页 yè
head; page
Right side 页 is the 'head' radical (originally a picture of a human head). The earliest meaning of 颓 was a bald head; from there it grew to crumbling and decline.
phonetic
秃 tū
bald; bare
Left side 秃 supplies the sound (tū shifting to tuí) and a flavor of meaning: the original sense was a balding head, and 秃 itself means 'bald'.

Stroke Order

颓 tuí