Chinese symbol for “overboard”

落水

luò shuǐ

to fall into water; to sink; overboard; fig. to degenerate

The closest CC-CEDICT match for overboard is 落水 (luò shuǐ), defined as: to fall into water; to sink; overboard; fig. to degenerate; to sink (into depravity); to go to the dogs.

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Characters and stroke order

落 luò

to fall, to drop; surplus, net income

radical 140 ⾋ · 12 strokes

水 shuǐ

water, liquid, lotion, juice

radical 85 ⽔ · 4 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 落水.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
落实 (落實)	luò shí	practical; workable
部落	bù luò	tribe
落后 (落後)	luò hòu	to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc)
村落	cūn luò	village
角落	jiǎo luò	corner (of a room, courtyard etc); (fig.) remote spot; nook
降落	jiàng luò	to descend; to land
水平	shuǐ píng	horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc)
水果	shuǐ guǒ	fruit

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.