陥 – collapse, fall into, cave in

10 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1154 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 陥 means collapse, fall into, cave in, fall (castle), slide into. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is カン (kan); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is おちい.る、おとしい.れる (ochiiru, otoshiireru). It is written with 10 strokes, under radical 阜 (no. 170).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	カン	kan
Kun’yomi	おちい.る	ochiiru
Kun’yomi	おとしい.れる	otoshiireru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 阜 (Kangxi radical 170). Components: ｜・日・勹・阡.

Words using 陥

欠陥けっかんdefect

Example sentences

このシステムには明らかな欠陥がある。

This system has obvious defects.

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Kanji with the same radical

院際防限階除降隊険陸障陣陽隣隠阻

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