颓
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to crumble; to collapse; to decline; to decay; decadent; dejected; dispirited; balding
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 頁 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 頹
- Common rank
- #2,202
- Unicode
- U+9893
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Formation & memory
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Words with 颓
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 山颓木坏 | lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined; a great sage has died (idiom) | |
| 颓风 | degenerate custom; decadent ways | |
| 颓老 | old and decrepit; senile | |
| 颓然 | decrepit; ruined; disappointed | |
| 颓运 | crumbling fate; declining fortune | |
| 颓放 | decadent; dissolute; degenerate | |
| 颓废派 | decadents (of the Decadent movement of late 19th century Europe) | |
| 断壁颓垣 | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom); fig. scene of devastation; ruins | |
| 颓垣断壁 | see 斷壁頹垣|断壁颓垣[duan4 bi4 tui2 yuan2] | |
| 颓势 | decline (in fortune) | |
| 颓景 | scene of dilapidation | |
| 颓败 | to decay; to decline; to become corrupt | |
| 颓唐 | dispirited; depressed | |
| 颓丧 | dejected; disheartened; listless | |
| 颓坏 | dilapidated; decrepit | |
| 颓废 | decadent; dispirited; depressed; dejected | |
| 倾颓 | to collapse; to topple; to capsize | |
| 衰颓 | uninspired; dejected; discouraged | |
| 颓靡 | (literary) devastated | |
| 颓塌 | to collapse |