to fall

Evolution

墬 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
墬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
墬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

to fall, sink; variant of [dì]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+58AC

Shuowen

“地,元气初分,輕、清、陽為天;重、濁、陰為地。萬物所陳列也。从土,也聲。墬,籀文地从。”


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