墜 means “crash, fall”

つい · tsui

Also: fall (down)

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

おちる, おつ

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ツイ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 15 strokes

The story

A troop (隊) plunging to the earth (土): 墜 is falling hard. 墜落 is a plane crash, 撃墜 shooting an aircraft down, and 失墜, a fall from grace, is what a scandal does to a minister's standing.

Used in 墜落 (tsuiraku, crash), 撃墜 (gekitsui, shooting down), and 失墜 (shittsui, fall from grace)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.