Chinese Character Wiki

蹶

jué, juě

stumble

Components
足 meaning component

足  Meaning component

zú, jù

  

foot

foot

厥 sound component

厥  Sound component

jué

  

personal pronoun he

Evolution

蹶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蹶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蹶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蹶  

jué

stumble, fall down; trample; to stumble; to trample; to kick (of horse)

蹶  

juě

see 尥蹶子[liào​juě​zi]

Most common words with 蹶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

一蹶不振

ruined at a stroke

蹶

to stumble

尥蹶子

to kick with the hind legs

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷat

kjwot

jué

stumble, fall


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4420th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Unicode

U+8E76

Shuowen

“蹶，僵也。从足，厥聲。一曰跳也。亦讀若橜。，蹶或从闕。”


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