崩

crumble, die, demolish, level

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ホウ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

-くず.れくず.すくず.れる

Stroke Order

11 / 11

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:11

JLPT:N1

Frequency:778

Vocabulary

ホウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
崩壊	ホウカイ	collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
崩落	ホウラク	collapse; break; cave-in; crash; market decline; market crash
崩御	ホウギョ	death (of an emperor); demise
核崩壊	カクホウカイ	disintegration of a cell nucleus
価格崩壊	カカクホウカイ	price destruction

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
雪崩	なだれ	avalanche; snowslide; avalanche; avalanche jōseki
雪崩	ナダレ	avalanche; snowslide; avalanche; avalanche jōseki
崩す	くずす	to destroy; to demolish; to pull down; to tear down; to level; to disturb; to put into disorder; to throw off balance; to make shaky; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill); to change; to make change; to write in cursive style; to write in running style; to break into a smile; to let off a smile; to lower (a price)
崩れる	くずれる	to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to become disorganized; to become untidy; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market); to slump; to decline; to break money into small change; to turn bad (e.g. weather); to change for the worse; to deteriorate
崩れ	くずれ	crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe

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