堕

堕

See also: 墮

堕 U+5815, 堕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5815 ← 堔 [U+5814] CJK Unified Ideographs 堖 → [U+5816]

Translingual

Glyph origin

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

Simplified from 墮 (elimination of 工)

Han character

堕 (radical 32, 土+9, 12 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

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 堕 – see 墮 (“to fall; to degenerate”). (This character, 堕, is the simplified form of 墮.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	堕
Kyūjitai	墮

Kanji

堕

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 墮)

1. degenerate
2. descend to
3. lapse into

Readings

• Go-on: だ (da, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: た (ta)
• Kun: おちる (ochiru, 堕ちる); くずす (kuzusu); くずれる (kuzureru)