塌
tā HSK7

fall in ruins

塌 tā
collapse verb
to cave in or fall down, as in a building or the ground

地震中那座老房子塌了。

dì​zhèn zhōng nà zuò lǎo fáng​zi tā le.

That old house collapsed during the earthquake.

droop verb
to sag, sink, or stay flat rather than protruding

他的鼻梁有点塌。

tā de bí​liáng yǒu​diǎn tā.

The bridge of his nose is a bit flat.

settle down verb
to calm down or concentrate one's mind

你得塌下心来好好工作。

nǐ děi tā​xià xīn lái hǎo​hǎo gōng​zuò.

You need to settle down and focus on your work.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,465th most common 19.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,102nd most common 16.4 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
7.78 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
8.02 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+584C

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