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堕落

duò luò

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 墮落

堕落 (duò luò) means "to degrade; to degenerate; to become depraved". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 堕落 means

1. to degrade
2. to degenerate
3. to become depraved
4. corrupt
5. a fall from grace

The characters in 堕落

• 堕duòto fall; to sink; (fig.) to degenerate
• 落luòto fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out

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.
• 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 containing 堕落

• 自甘堕落zì gān duò luòto abandon oneself (idiom); to let oneself go

Where 堕落 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · duì–lüè (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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