Memory phrase for the character: 墜

墜

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Meaning

crash, fall, crumble

Pronunciation

 TSUI

Explanation

 Top: unit/party/corps 隊 (Out of 丷 the hills 阝like pigs 豕 rushes the troops.), below: earth 土

Mnemonic
 
The unit/corps is on the ground: It has fallen / crashed.

Radicals

阝 hillThe radical kozato shows a hill. 阝 and is always on the left side of a kanji. (Please note that rather similar radical oozato ⻏ is always on the right sight of the kanji and means village.)
豕 pigThe radical inoko is also used in its simplified form 亥.
土 earthground, soil
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 Vocabulary

墜落 ついらく  falling, crashing

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