Jisho

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11 strokes
Radical:
mountain
Parts:
crumble, die, demolish, level
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
778 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 崩落 【ホウラク】 collapse, break, cave-in, crash, market decline, market crash
  • 崩壊 【ホウカイ】 collapse, crumbling, breaking down, caving in, (radioactive) decay, disintegration
  • 壊崩 【カイホウ】 collapse, crumbling, breaking down, caving in

Kun reading compounds

  • 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)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
beng1
Korean:
bung

Spanish

  • desmoronamiento
  • derrumbe
  • destruir
  • desmoronar
  • desmoronarse
  • desmenuzarse
  • derrumbarse

Portuguese

  • Demolir
  • murchar
  • aplainar

French

  • s'effondrer
  • mourir
  • démolir
  • niveler
1801 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1700 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1430 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1490 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1244 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1122 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1174 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1663 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
547 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2863 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1478 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1989 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
781 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
8212P Morohashi
2296 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1491 New Nelson (John Haig)
774 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
836 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1426 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1246 2001 Kanji
3o8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-8 SKIP code
2222.7 Four corner code
1-42-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5d29 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
child, seed
Parts:
character, letter, word, section of village
Kun:
あざあざな-な
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
485 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 字 【ジ】 character (esp. kanji), letter, written text, handwriting, penmanship, the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
  • 字形 【ジケイ】 character style, character form
  • 題字 【ダイジ】 title lettering
  • 英字 【エイジ】 English letter, alphabetic character

Kun reading compounds

  • 字 【あざ】 section of village
  • 字 【あざな】 Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations), nickname, section of a village
  • 大字 【おおあざ】 larger section (of village)
  • 小字 【こあざ】 small administrative unit (of a village)
  • 字 【あざな】 Chinese courtesy name (name formerly given to adult Chinese men, used in place of their given name in formal situations), nickname, section of a village

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi4
Korean:
ja

Spanish

  • carácter
  • letra
  • palabra

Portuguese

  • caracter
  • letra
  • palavra
  • seção de aldeia

French

  • caractère
  • lettre
  • mot
  • hameau
86 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
78 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
28 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
612 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1281 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
121 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
156 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.17 Japanese for Busy People
110 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
110 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
528 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
457 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2696 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1374 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1860 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
188 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
6942 Morohashi
2172 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1285 New Nelson (John Haig)
185 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
197 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
57 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
747 2001 Kanji
3m2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-3 SKIP code
2-3-2 SKIP code
3040.7 Four corner code
1-27-90 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5b57 Unicode hex code