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隕

yǔn

fall

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 員 represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

員 sound component

員  Sound component

yuán

  

member

Evolution

隕 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
隕 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

陨 (隕) 

yǔn

fall, slip; let fall; die; to fall; meteor; to perish; see also 殞|殒[yǔn]

Most common words with 隕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

陨石

meteorite

陨

to fall

陨落

to fall down

陨星

meteorite

陨石坑

meteorite impact crater

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷrə[n]ʔ

hwinX

yǔn

fall down


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4256% of movies

2671st most common character in movies

3295th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

陨

Unicode

U+9695

Shuowen

“隕，從高下也。从，員聲。《易》曰：‘有隕自天。’”


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