颓 (tuí): to crumble, to collapse, to decline
颓 (tuí) is a Chinese character meaning “to crumble.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 秃 (structural) and 页 (structural). It ranks #2744 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 颓 a bald 秃 head 页; 秃 also provides the pronunciation. Its radical form 页 (page) appears in many related characters such as 页 (yè, page), 顺 (shùn, to obey), 须 (xū, must).
Definitions
- to crumble
- to collapse
- to decline
Etymology & Origin
ideographicA bald 秃 head 页; 秃 also provides the pronunciation
Decomposition: ⿰秃页 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 颓废adjective | tuí fèi | decadent |
| 颓丧adjective | tuí sàng | dejected |
| 颓势noun | tuí shì | decline (in fortune) |
| 山颓木坏 | shān tuí mù huài | lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined |
| 颓然 | tuí rán | decrepit |
| 颓老 | tuí lǎo | old and decrepit |
| 颓废派 | tuí fèi pài | decadents (of the Decadent movement of late 19th century Europe) |
| 颓放 | tuí fàng | decadent |
| 颓运 | tuí yùn | crumbling fate |
| 颓风 | tuí fēng | degenerate custom |
| 断壁颓垣 | duàn bì tuí yuán | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) |
| 颓垣断壁 | tuí yuán duàn bì | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) |
| 颓坏 | tuí huài | dilapidated |
| 颓败adjective | tuí bài | to decay |
| 颓景 | tuí jǐng | scene of dilapidation |
颓 appears in 23 compound words: 83 as the first character, 9 as the last, and 9 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 颓 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
这个颓字的意思与它的部首有关。
zhè gě tuí zì de yì sī yú tā de bù shǒu yǒu guān .
The meaning of the character "颓" is related to its radical.
乐队采访中透露，他们五人的情绪都是平平淡淡，不会很高涨也不会很颓丧。
lè duì cǎi fǎng zhōng tòu lù , tā men wǔ rén de qíng xù dōu shì píng píng dàn dàn , bù huì hěn gāo zhǎng yě bù huì hěn tuí sāng .
In an interview, the band revealed that all five members were feeling fairly neutral—neither overly excited nor particularly down.
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Character Family
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