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Meaning of 頹

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(Simplified: 颓)
Pinyin: tuí
English Definition: to crumble; to collapse; to decline; to decay; decadent; dejected; dispirited; balding
Chinese Definition:
①崩坏,倒塌:颓坏。颓圮。颓垣断壁。
②消沉,委靡:颓萎。颓丧。颓靡。颓唐。
③败坏:衰颓。颓败。颓景。颓朽。
④水向下流:泣涕如颓。
⑤灭亡:“亲小人,远贤臣,此后汉所以倾颓也”。
⑥恭顺的样子。
⑦暴风:“习习谷风,维风及颓”。
Total strokes: 16; Radical:
Ideographic:A bald 禿 head ; 禿 also provides the pronunciation
Character Formation:
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Example Words
頹廢 tuí fèi decadent; dispirited; depressed; dejected
頹然 tuí rán decrepit; ruined; disappointed
頹喪 tuí sàng dejected; disheartened; listless
頹唐 tuí táng dispirited; depressed
頹勢 tuí shì decline (in fortune)
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Example Sentences
1
The accusation is impossible to prove but it is true that China has a weak scene of literary criticism.
2
This balding , gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was too old to have been my classmate.
3
The hapless Gray Davis had been recalled, and the Austrian-born actor made a promising start to break the pattern.
4
Man is a decadent inclined wall, silence, about time, with great care to mention, the past large tracts.
5
I know that feeling a sense of days to, but you can not give you the cold eyes moved, only to be secretly decadent wilt down very depressed.