陥 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Origin of the character

「陷」の略体。「陷」については陷#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

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

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • カンJHS
Kun (native)
  • おちい(る)JHS
  • おとしい(れる)HS
Other languages
  • 拼音xian4
  • 한글ham
  • Hán-ViệtHầm

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
10 strokes
Radical
阜(おか)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+9665

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰阝⿱⺈旧

Words using this kanji

  • 陥落かんらく落ち込むこと。陥入。陥没。 城や都市が攻め落とされること。 今まで保っていた地位や順位が下がること。subsidence, sinking, cave-in, collapse
  • 陥没かんぼつ何らかの原因により地面や身体などの表面が落ち込むこと。cave-in, collapse, sinking, depression (e.g. of the skull)
  • 陥るおちいるおちいる 参照to fall into (e.g. a hole), to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.), to fall into (a trap, etc.)
  • 陥穽かんせい落とし穴。 人を陥れる計略。trap, pitfall
  • 陥入かんにゅう窪むこと。落ち込むこと。subsidence, depression, sinking, collapse
  • 陥凹かんおうindentation, recessus, vallecula, concavity
  • 陥れるおとしいれるおとしいれるを参照。to trap (into a difficult situation), to put (in a fix), to throw (e.g. into turmoil), to trick (into doing)
  • 陥没湖かんぼつこlake formed in volcanic caldera
  • 陥入爪かんにゅうそうingrown nail, ingrowing nail
  • 陥入吻かんにゅうふんintrovert (eversible proboscis)
  • 陥没骨折かんぼつこっせつdepressed fracture
  • 陥没乳頭かんぼつにゅうとうinverted nipple, retracted nipple
  • 陥没乳首かんぼつちくびinverted nipple, retracted nipple
  • 陥没呼吸かんぼつこきゅうretractive breathing
  • 陥りやすいおちいりやすいprone (to), liable (to), apt (to), tending (to)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-7
Four Corner
7726.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
2d7.11
Heisig
1412
Nelson
4990