Memory phrase for the character: 陥


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Meaning

fall into, entrap, pitfall, subsidence

Pronunciation

KAN
ochiiru

Explanation

Left: hill 阝, right: crooked person ⺈, past times 旧 (One 丨 day 日 has passed) - developed from 陷, which comprises a pitfall 臼

Mnemonic


 
By the hill is a tumbling ⺈ person falling into the mortar-臼-like pitfall.

Radicals

hillThe radical kozato shows a hill. 阝 and is always on the left side of a kanji. (Please note that rather similar radical oozato ⻏ is always on the right sight of the kanji and means village.)
kneeling person(Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)
past, old daysOne 一 day 日 has passed.




 Vocabulary

欠陥 けっかん  defect, fault, deficiency
陥落 かんらく  fall, sinking, surrender, capitulation


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