Kanji
N1 12 strokes Grade 8 freq #2087

degenerate, descend to, lapse into

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

earth tsuchi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

depravity; corruption
abortion; feticide
abortifacient; abortive drug
marrying (of a monk)
going to hell; falling into hell
fallen angel (esp. Lucifer)
debasement; corruption
debasement; corruption
self-indulgent; undisciplined
sinking into sin

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to abort (a fetus)
to decline (of morals, character, etc.); to become vulgar (e.g. of a conversation)
joining the dark side; joining the forces of evil
to degenerate; to lapse into
to degenerate; to lapse into
the Fall of Man; the Fall

Example sentences

He is one of the rottenest fellows that have ever crossed my path.

It is their husbands' faults if wives do fall.