垂
chuí HSK7

droop

垂 chuí
hand down verb
to bequeath or pass down to future generations

这位英雄的功绩必将永垂青史。

zhè wèi yīng​xióng de gōng​jì bì jiāng yǒng chuí qīng​shǐ.

The hero's achievements will surely go down in history forever.

hang verb
to hang down, droop, or dangle vertically

柳枝垂到了水面上。

liǔ​zhī chuí dào le shuǐ​miàn shàng.

The willow branches hang down to the water's surface.

nearly idiom
to approach a certain state, time, or age; almost

这位垂暮之年的老人依然坚持每天锻炼。

zhè wèi chuí​mù​zhī​nián de lǎo​rén yī​rán jiān​chí měi tiān duàn​liàn.

This elderly man, in the twilight of his years, still insists on exercising every day.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,592nd most common 61.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,192nd most common 14.3 per million appears in 9% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.62 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
14.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+5782

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)