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The character "陨", with its traditional form "隕", structurally combines the left radical "阝" denoting terrain or elevation with the right component "員" serving as a phonetic element, which in the simplified form becomes "云". Etymologically, it originally signified the action of falling from a height, particularly describing celestial bodies such as stars or meteors descending from the sky. Over time, its semantic range extended to include concepts of perishing or declining, as evidenced in classical literary contexts. In modern usage, while maintaining this foundational sense of falling, the character is now most commonly encountered in compound words like "陨石" for meteorite.
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天上掉下陨石。
陨石落在山里。
昨晚有陨石坠落。
那颗星星陨落了。
科学家研究陨石的成分。
陨石撞击地球导致灾难。
帝国的陨落是不可避免的。
陨星划过夜空的光芒短暂而美丽。