坠机

墜機

zhuìjī

noun #8,982

Meanings

1 plane crash; air crash
2 to crash (of an aircraft)

Characters

to fall; to drop; to crash

machine; aircraft

Fall + aircraft - a plane falling from the sky.

Examples

HSK 5

飞机在山区坠机了。

Fēijī zài shānqū zhuìjī le.

The plane crashed in a mountainous area.

HSK 6

那次坠机事故造成了多人死亡。

Nà cì zhuìjī shìgù zàochéng le duō rén sǐwáng.

That plane crash caused multiple deaths.

Tips

usage

坠机 can function as both a noun (a crash) and a verb-object phrase (to crash). In news reports, you'll often see 坠机事件 (crash incident) or 坠机事故 (crash accident).

Stroke Order

坠 zhuì

机 jī