一落千丈

一
落
千
丈
lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom) / fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline / to take a dive

Characters and words in 一落千丈

一
yi̅ = y + Ø1
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
落
là = l + a4
to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind
落
lào = l + ao4
colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds
落
luò = lu + o4
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
落 = 艹 + 洛 : Lenny Lemur tried to grow some artificial lawn in the observatory's bathroom, but to no avail. He even put up a star for the light and provided bottled water, but the artificial lawn didn't grow. To make matters worse, the star is about to fall into the bathroom's well.
千
qia̅n = qi + an1
thousand
千 = 丿 + 十 : The Queen of Hearts dropped a kilo on her banana in front of the anthill, and now she uses a cross to try and revive it.
千
韆
qia̅n = qi + an1
see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
丈
zhàng = zh + ang4
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male
丈 = 一 + 乂 : Mnemonic symbol: ten feet are about 3 meters, so let's say Bigfoot. Nice side effect: that way it's easier to remember 丈夫 = husband (if your husband looks like Bigfoot). The ten feet tall Bigfoot (丈) just left the anglepod's bathroom (ang4), and he left something that looks like a big flute (一). James II of England (zh) needs to move it out of the way, but he'll touch it only with pliers (丈).

Words with 一落千丈

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