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堕

duò

HSK 6 Character Traditional 墮

What 堕 means

1. to fall; to sink
2. (fig.) to degenerate

Example sentences

• 我在堕落！
  Wǒ zài duòluò!
  I'm degenerating!
• 你不要自甘堕落。
  Nǐ bù yào zìgānduòluò.
  You don't have to kick yourself.
• 你支持还是反对堕胎？
  Nǐ zhīchí háishi fǎnduì duòtāi?
  Are you for or against abortions?
• 在思想的领域中, 荒诞和堕落仍然主宰着世界, 它们的操控只是短时间地被暂停。
  Zài sīxiǎng de lǐngyù zhōng, huāngdàn hé duòluò réngrán zhǔzǎi zhe shìjiè, tāmen de cāokòng zhǐshì duǎnshíjiān de bèi zàntíng.
  In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

Words starting with 堕

• 堕落duò luòto degrade; to degenerate; to become depraved
• 堕胎duò tāito induce an abortion; induced abortion
• 堕楼duò lóuto jump to one's death
• 堕云雾中duò yún wù zhōng(lit.) to become lost in a fog (idiom); (fig.) at a complete loss

Words containing 堕

• 如堕烟雾rú duò yān wùas if degenerating into smoke (idiom); ignorant and unable to see where things are heading
• 自甘堕落zì gān duò luòto abandon oneself (idiom); to let oneself go
• 如堕五里雾中rú duò wǔ lǐ wù zhōngas if lost in a thick fog (idiom); in a fog; muddled
• 呱呱堕地gū gū duò dìsee 呱呱坠地

Characters that look like 堕

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 替tìto substitute for; to take the place of; to replace
• 婴yīnginfant; baby
• 愤fènindignant; anger; resentment
• 匮kuìto lack; lacking; empty
• 奘zàng(literary) strong; robust (used in personal names); (colloquial) coarse; boorish
• 笏hù(old) ceremonial tablet (held by officials at an audience)

Sounds the same

Read duò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 惰lazy
• 跺to stamp one's feet
• 剁to chop up (meat etc); to chop off (sb's hand etc)
• 舵helm; rudder
• 驮load carried by a pack animal
• 垛pile
• 嶞mountain peak
• 柮wood scraps
• 饳used in 馉饳
• 刴variant of 剁
• 媠old variant of 惰