diē
stumble
Phonosemantic compound. 足 represents the meaning and 失 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
diē
stumble, slip, fall down; stamp; to fall; to tumble; to trip; (of prices etc) to drop; Taiwan pr. [dié]
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤi[t] | det | diē | stumble |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 7.3202% of movies
2230th most common character in movies
1590th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+8DCC |
Shuowen | “跌，踼也。从足，失聲。一曰越也。” |
Sources
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