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Originating from the traditional character "隕", which combines the "阝" radical associated with terrain and elevation with the phonetic element "員", the character "陨" initially denoted the action of falling from a height, reflecting its etymological link to physical descent. Over centuries, its meaning broadened to encompass various forms of decline or dropping, often applied to celestial phenomena such as meteors falling to earth. The simplified form "陨" replaced the original phonetic component with "云", a graphically simpler element that approximates the sound while retaining the radical's semantic contribution, thereby preserving the character's core conception of falling or perishing without altering its fundamental usage in modern compounds.
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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。