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Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1154 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: collapse, fall into, cave in, fall (castle), slide into

Kunyomi: おちい.る, おとしい.れる

Onyomi: カン

Composition: 阝 𠂊 旧

陥

Radical

Radical: 阜

Meaning: mound, dam (阝 left)

Reading: こざと

Frequency: 348

Alternative forms:

阝(alt radical position hen)

阜

Examples

Onyomi Examples

陥落 (カンラク) subsidence, sinking, cave-in, collapse, falling in, fall (of a city, fortress, etc.), surrender, fall (in position, rank, etc.), demotion, giving in (to someone's persuasion), yielding, being convinced

陥没 (カンボツ) cave-in, collapse, sinking, depression (e.g. of the skull), subsidence

擠陥 (セイカン) tempting into crime

注意欠陥 (チュウイケッカン) attention deficit

Kunyomi Examples

陥る (おちいる) to fall into (e.g. a hole), to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.), to fall into (a trap, etc.), to fall, to surrender, to capitulate

陥れる (おとしいれる) to trap (into a difficult situation), to put (in a fix), to throw (e.g. into turmoil), to trick (into doing), to lure (into a trap), to frame (for a crime), to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.), to take, to reduce, to drop (something) into

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