顛
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颠 (顛) diān
fall forwards verb
to fall forward or topple over

他走路不小心，猛地向前颠了一下。

tā zǒu​lù bù xiǎo​xīn, měng​de xiàng​qián diān le yī​xià.

He was walking carelessly and suddenly stumbled forward.

inverted verb
turned upside down or reversed in order

你把这个词的先后顺序写颠了。

nǐ bǎ zhè gè cí de xiān​hòu shùn​xù xiě diān le.

You have written the order of these words backward.

jolt verb
to shake or bump up and down during travel

这条路不平，车开起来很颠。

zhè tiáo lù bù píng, chē kāi qi​lai hěn diān.

This road is uneven, and the ride is very bumpy.

top noun
the top or highest point, especially the apex of the head

他站在高高的山颠向下俯瞰，远处的风景尽收眼底。

tā zhàn zài gāo gāo de shān diān xiàng xià fǔ​kàn, yuǎn​chù de fēng​jǐng jìn​shōu​yǎn​dǐ.

Standing at the high mountain peak and looking down, he could see the distant scenery in its entirety.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,134th most common 30.6 per million
Movie subtitles
2,203rd most common 14.2 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.99 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
8.38 per million

Details
Simplified
颠
Strokes
19
Unicode
U+985B

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