Memory phrase for the character: 跌

跌

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Meaning to tumble, to drop, to fall

Pronunciation

diē

Explanation

Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: to lose 失 (I emphasize ノ the husband 夫 will lose.)

Mnemonic
 
If a foot is 'lost', you: tumble.

Radicals

足 foot
失 to lose, to fail
夫 husbandThe big 大 person with the extra 一 caring arms. (Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled才, bending マ,卩 or slumped 㔾 person)
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 Vocabulary

跌落 diē luò  fall
跌倒 diē dǎo  to tumble; to fall; fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
跌价 diē jià  a price decrease
跌宕昭彰 diē dàng zhāo zhāng  flowing (of prose); free
跌跌跄跄 diē diē qiàng qiàng  to dodder along
跌跌跄跄 diē diē qiàng qiàng  to dodder along
跌脚捶胸 diē jiǎo chuí xiōng  lit. stamping and beating the chest (idiom); fig. angry or stressed about sth
跌跤 diē jiāo  to fall down; to take a fall
跌跤 diē jiāo  

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