Kanji N1

陥: collapse, fall into, cave in

陥 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning collapse, fall into, cave in, written with 10 strokes. It is read カン (on) and おちいる, おとしいれる (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 欠陥 (けっかん, defect) and 陥落 (かんらく, subsidence).

陥

Meanings

  • collapse
  • fall into
  • cave in
  • fall (castle)
  • slide into
Strokes10
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1154 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • カン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • おちいる
  • おとしいれる

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 陥

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 欠陥けっかん

    defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency

    JLPT N3
  • 陥落かんらく

    subsidence; sinking; cave-in; collapse

  • 陥没かんぼつ

    cave-in; collapse; sinking

  • 陥るおちいる

    to fall into (e.g. a hole)

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.