Kanji
N1 10 strokes Grade 8 freq #1432

decline, wane, weaken

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

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Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

senility; senile decay
decline; degeneration
weakness; debility
rise and fall; ups and downs
attenuation; damping

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

weakening; emaciation
to waste away
to become weak; to decline

Example sentences

Don't grow old, grow wise!

Grandfather is quite senile.

Briefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.

The decline can be traced to the 1950s.