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HSK
to decline / to drop / to fall / to go down / to decrease
HSK 4
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  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit
HSK 2
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  *吹* | 吹* | *吹
to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through
HSK 2
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  *零* | 零* | *零
zero / nought / zero sign / fractional / fragmentary / odd (of numbers) / (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one) / fraction / (in mathematics) remainder (after division) / extra / to wither and fall / to wither
HSK 1
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  *病* | 病* | *病
illness / CL: 場|场 / disease / to fall ill / defect
HSK 1
to fall behind / to lag (in technology etc) / backward / to retrogress
HSK 3
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  *掉* | 掉* | *掉
to fall / to drop / to lag behind / to lose / to go missing / to reduce / fall (in prices) / to lose (value, weight etc) / to wag / to swing / to turn / to change / to exchange / to swap / to show off / to shed (hair) / (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
HSK 2
to fall asleep
HSK 4
to fall ill
HSK 1
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  *差* | 差* | *差
different / wrong; mistaken / to fall short; to lack / not up to standard; inferior / Taiwan pr. [cha1]
HSK 1
straight line / sharply (rise or fall)
HSK 5
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  *摔* | 摔* | *摔
to throw down / to fall / to drop and break
HSK 5
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  *黄* | 黄* | *黄
yellow / pornographic / to fall through
HSK 2
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  *闹* | 闹* | *闹
noisy / cacophonous / to make noise / to disturb / to vent (feelings) / to fall ill / to have an attack (of sickness) / to go in (for some activity) / to joke
HSK 4
in the evening / when night falls / towards evening / at night fall / at dusk
HSK 6
to fall / to tumble
HSK 7-9
to dive (into water) / (sports) diving / to commit suicide by jumping into water / (fig.) (of stock prices etc) to fall dramatically
HSK 6
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  *落* | 落* | *落
to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement
HSK 4
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  *着* | 着* | *着
to touch / to come in contact with / to feel / to be affected by / to catch fire / to burn / (coll.) to fall asleep / (after a verb) hitting the mark / succeeding in
HSK 4
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  *降* | 降* | *降
to drop / to fall / to come down / to descend
HSK 4
to belong to / to be affiliated to / to fall under the jurisdiction of / a place where one feels that one belongs / one's final destination (where one need look no further)
HSK 7-9
to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground
HSK 5
autumn / fall
HSK 4
to fall due (loan etc) / to expire (visa etc) / to mature (investment bond etc)
HSK 6
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  *落* | 落* | *落
to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind
HSK 5
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  *伏* | 伏* | *伏
to lean over / to fall (go down) / to hide (in ambush) / to conceal oneself / to lie low / hottest days of summer / to submit / to concede defeat / to overcome / to subdue / volt
to undulate / to fluctuate / wave motion / rise and fall
HSK 6
lit. dragon births dragon, phoenix births phoenix (idiom) / fig. the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
shuanggui, an extralegal system within the CCP for detaining and interrogating cadres who fall from grace
downstream / to go into the water / to put into water / to launch (a ship) / fig. to fall into bad ways / to lead astray / to go to pot
to fall / to drop
whereabouts / to drop / to fall
HSK 7-9
to fall apart / opera section in free rhythm
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  *散* | 散* | *散
scattered / loose / to come loose / to fall apart / leisurely / powdered medicine
HSK 5
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  *跌* | 跌* | *跌
to fall / to tumble / to trip / (of prices etc) to drop / Taiwan pr. [die2]
HSK 6
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  *闪* | 闪* | *闪
to dodge / to duck out of the way / to beat it / shaken (by a fall) / to sprain / to pull a muscle / lightning / spark / a flash / to flash (across one's mind) / to leave behind / (Internet slang) (of a display of affection) "dazzlingly" saccharine
HSK 4
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  *雨* | 雨* | *雨
(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet
to fall / fig. to suffer a setback
(idiom) (of sb unfairly accused) to have all one's protestations fall on deaf ears; to be unable to convince sb of one's innocence
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  *崩* | 崩* | *崩
to collapse / to fall into ruins / death of king or emperor / demise
to fall asleep
to fall back / to return to low level after a rise (in water level, price etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *秋* | 秋* | *秋
autumn / fall / harvest time
to flourish then decline / rise and fall
to fall to the ground
(of an illness) to occur / (of a person) to get sick; to fall ill / onset (of a medical condition)
HSK 6
to fall over each other in their eagerness to...
to work hard for sth / to resolve on improvement / determined not to fall short
HSK 7-9
to fall / to drop / to land (of projectile)
HSK 7-9
to awaken / to come to realize / awakened to the truth / the truth dawns upon one / scales fall from the eyes / to become aware
HSK 7-9
tears falling like rain (idiom)
to go off the stage / to fall from position of prestige / to step down (from office etc) / to disentangle oneself / to get off the hook
HSK 7-9
to trip and fall / to wrestle / wrestling (sports)
HSK 7-9
prosperity and decline (of a kingdom) / rise and fall
the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom) / fig. the natural order of things / something you can't go against
to flourish and decay / rise and fall
to fall in price
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  *栽* | 栽* | *栽
to plant; to grow / to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign) / to impose sth on sb / to stumble; to fall down
HSK 7-9
to rise again after a fall / to pick up / rally (stock market etc)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to fall out with sb; to become enemies
up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession / no sooner one subsides, the next arises / repeating continuously / occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)
HSK 7-9
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  *颠* | 颠* | *颠
top (of the head) / apex / to fall forwards / inverted / to jolt
fortunes rise and fall; times change
to take a fall
to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
HSK 7-9
lit. the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom) / fig. the whole sequence of events; causes and effects
HSK 7-9
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  *逿* | 逿* | *逿
to fall / to sway / to cross
stand-in / substitute / body double / stuntman / scapegoat / fall guy / to stand in for sb else
HSK 7-9
third tone in Mandarin / falling-rising tone
lit. the falling of one leaf heralds the coming of autumn (idiom) / fig. a small sign can indicate a great trend / a straw in the wind
to cease to feel a sense of loyalty (or gratitude etc) to sb or sth / to fall out of love with sb
rise and fall
to fall / to drop
to float down / to fall gently (snowflakes, leaves etc)
(of sales, prices etc) to fall / to drop / decline / slump
to fall well short (in terms of quality, quantity or degree)
to fall from power; to collapse / downfall
to collapse; to crumble; to fall apart
HSK 7-9
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  *坠* | 坠* | *坠
to fall / to drop / to weigh down
HSK 7-9
Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.
large fall
to fall ill / to contract a disease
to admire wholeheartedly / to fall in love with
(of water, prices etc) to rise and fall
to engulf / to bury / to overlook / to stifle / to neglect / to fall into oblivion
HSK 7-9
to drop off; to fall off; (of hair, teeth etc) to fall out / to omit (a character when writing)
HSK 7-9
to fall ill
HSK 7-9
to have an acrimonious falling-out / to shed all pretense of cordiality / to tear into each other
to mount a psychological attack / to try to demoralize / to try to win over / to try to persuade / (TCM) to fall into a coma or stupor due to an excess of emotion
falling stock prices / bear market
rock 'n' roll (music) / to rock / to fall off
HSK 7-9
to no avail / achieving nothing / totally ineffective / to have no effect / to fall flat (esp. of joke or speech that is completely ignored)
to fall in a trap
to fall back / to go in reverse
to fall into disuse (of laws, customs etc) / to neglect
to fall out with sb and become hostile
to fall apart / exhaustion
to fall to the ground / to be set on the ground / to reach to the ground / to be born / (of a plane) to land
HSK 7-9
(of a market index etc) to fall below (a given level) / to be injured or damaged as a result of a fall
to degrade / to degenerate / to become depraved / corrupt / a fall from grace
HSK 7-9

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