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陥 — Collapse

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary school#1154 most used
collapse, fall into, cave in, fall (castle), slide into
On’yomiカン (kan)
Kun’yomiおちい (ochiiru)
Kun’yomiおとしいれる (otoshiireru)

Stroke order (10 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 陥

WordReadingMeaning
欠陥けっかん
kekkan
defect; fault; flaw
陥落かんらく
kanraku
subsidence; sinking; cave-in
陥るおちいる
ochiiru
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.)
陥没かんぼつ
kanbotsu
cave-in; collapse; sinking

Study notes

陥 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 10 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1154 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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