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坠毁

zhuì huǐ

2-character word Traditional 墜毀

What 坠毁 means

1. (of an airplane etc) to fall to the ground and crash

The characters in 坠毁

• 坠zhuìto fall; to drop; to weigh down
• 毁huǐto destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander

Example sentences

• 飞机坠毁了。
  The plane crashed.
• 他的飞机在山上坠毁。
  Tā de fēijī zài Shānshàng zhuìhuǐ.
  His airplane crashed in the mountains.
• 上个星期这架飞机坠毁了。
  Shànggèxīngqī zhè jià fēijī zhuìhuǐ le.
  The plane crash was only last week.
• 根据电视新闻，一架飞机在印度坠毁了。
  Gēnjù diànshì xīnwén, yī jià fēijī zài Yìndù zhuìhuǐ le.
  According to TV news, there was a plane crash in India.