Translingual

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : phonetic 陏 + semantic 土.

Simplified from 墮 (elimination of 工)

Han character

堕 (radical 32 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓月土 (NBG) or XX弓月土 (XXNBG), composition ⿱陏土)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 234, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 459, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5815

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. degenerate
2. descend to
3. lapse into

Readings

• Goon: だ (da)
• Kan’on: た (ta)
• Kun: くずす (kuzusu), くずれる (kuzureru), おちる (ochiru)