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

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.

飞机在山区坠机了。

Fēijī zài shānqū zhuìjī le.

The plane crashed in a mountainous area.

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 (zhuìjī shìjiàn, crash incident) or 坠机事故 (zhuìjī shìgù, crash accident).

Stroke Order

坠 zhuì

机 jī