Chinese symbol for “falter”
衰退
shuāi tuì
to decline; to fall; to drop; to falter
The closest CC-CEDICT match for falter is 衰退 (shuāi tuì), defined as: to decline; to fall; to drop; to falter; a decline; recession (in economics).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “falter”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 趑 | zī | to falter; unable to move |
| 蹒跚不前 (蹣跚不前) | pán shān bù qián | to falter; to stall |
| 支支吾吾 | zhī zhī wú wú | to hem and haw; to stall |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 衰退.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 衰落 | shuāi luò | to fall; to drop |
| 衰败 (衰敗) | shuāi bài | to decline; to wane |
| 衰老 | shuāi lǎo | to age; to deteriorate with age |
| 衰竭 | shuāi jié | (of an organ or bodily function) failure; to fail; (of resources etc) exhaustion; depletion |
| 兴衰 (興衰) | xīng shuāi | prosperity and decline (of a kingdom); rise and fall |
| 退出 | tuì chū | to withdraw; to abort |
| 退休 | tuì xiū | to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement |
| 撤退 | chè tuì | to retreat |
See also: Japanese symbol for “falter”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.