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颓

tuí

Character Traditional 頹

What 颓 means

1. to crumble
2. to collapse
3. to decline
4. to decay
5. decadent
6. dejected
7. dispirited
8. balding

Other readings

颓 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• tuívariant of {颓|tuí}
• tuívariant of {颓|tuí}

Words starting with 颓

• 颓废tuí fèidecadent; dispirited; depressed
• 颓然tuí rándecrepit; ruined; disappointed
• 颓丧tuí sàngdejected; disheartened; listless
• 颓势tuí shìdecline (in fortune)
• 颓唐tuí tángdispirited; depressed
• 颓塌tuí tāto collapse
• 颓坏tuí huàidilapidated; decrepit
• 颓放tuí fàngdecadent; dissolute; degenerate
• 颓败tuí bàito decay; to decline; to become corrupt
• 颓景tuí jǐngscene of dilapidation
• 颓朽tuí xiǔdecaying; rotten; decrepit
• 颓老tuí lǎoold and decrepit; senile
• 颓萎tuí wěilistless; dispirited
• 颓运tuí yùncrumbling fate; declining fortune
• 颓靡tuí mǐ(literary) devastated
• 颓风tuí fēngdegenerate custom; decadent ways
• 颓废派tuí fèi pàidecadents (of the Decadent movement of late 19th century Europe)
• 颓垣断壁tuí yuán duàn bìlit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom); fig. scene of devastation; ruins
• 颓圮tuí pǐto collapse; dilapidated

Words containing 颓

• 倾颓qīng tuíto collapse; to topple; to capsize
• 衰颓shuāi tuíuninspired; dejected; discouraged
• 山颓木坏shān tuí mù huàilit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined; a great sage has died (idiom)
• 断壁颓垣duàn bì tuí yuánlit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom); fig. scene of devastation; ruins

Characters that look like 颓

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

• 锁suǒto lock; to lock up; a lock
• 锯jùa saw; to saw
• 颊jiácheeks
• 颐yí(literary) chin; jaw; (literary) to foster; to nurture; to protect
• 毂gūused in 毂辘
• 愆qiānfault; transgression

Sounds the same

Read tuí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 魋Japanese brown bear
• 蹪to stumble; to fall
• 𬯎variant of 颓