堕 — Chinese character
堕
duò
to drop, to fall, to sink; degenerate
- Pinyin
- duò
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 陏 土
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 陏
- Traditional
- 墮
- Japanese
- 堕 as a kanji
Common words with 堕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 堕落 (墮落) | duò luò | to degrade; to degenerate |
| 堕胎 (墮胎) | duò tāi | to induce an abortion; induced abortion |
| 自甘堕落 (自甘墮落) | zì gān duò luò | to abandon oneself (idiom); to let oneself go |
| 堕楼 (墮樓) | duò lóu | to jump to one's death |
| 呱呱堕地 (呱呱墮地) | gū gū duò dì | see 呱呱坠地 (gū gū zhuì dì) |
| 堕云雾中 (墮雲霧中) | duò yún wù zhōng | (lit.) to become lost in a fog (idiom); (fig.) at a complete loss |
| 如堕烟雾 (如墮煙霧) | rú duò yān wù | as if degenerating into smoke (idiom); ignorant and unable to see where things are heading |
English words written with 堕
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.