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颓

頹
tuí
adjective #39,263

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 7-9
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.
HSK 7-9
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