Ideographic: To lose 失 one's footing 足Radical:

meaning for diē:

  • - to fall
  • - to tumble
  • - to trip
  • - (of prices etc) to drop
  • - Taiwan pr. die2to fall
  • - to tumbleto fall
  • - to dropuninhibited
  • - free and unconstrained
  • - rhythmical(economics) to slump
  • - steep fall (in value etc)decline (in value)
  • - extent of a drop

tūrán突然
diē
le
jiāo

He suddenly fell down.