漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
陥: collapse, fall into
Also: cave in, fall (castle), slide into
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
⻖ carries the meaning · 𠂊 and 旧 are drawn in
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 欠陥けっかん
- 陥落かんらくsubsidence; sinking; cave-in
- 陥没かんぼつcave-in; collapse; sinking
おちいるochiiru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 陥るおちいるto fall into (e.g. a hole)
Also read おとしいれる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
旧
Also built on old times (旧)
In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 陷 · xiàn
陥 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 陷 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 陷 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 陷 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xiàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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