朽

Meaning

朽 centers on organic breakdown and decline: wood rotting, things decaying, or a person withdrawing from the world into seclusion as a kind of social decay.

• 老朽ろうきゅう

  infirmity (due to old age); decrepitude; senility; senescence; superannuation

• 朽ちるくちる
  N1

  to rot; to decay

• 不朽ふきゅう

  everlasting; immortal; eternal; enduring; undying; imperishable

• 朽ち木くちき

  decayed tree; rotted tree; decayed wood; rotten wood

• 腐朽ふきゅう

  decay; deterioration; rot

• 朽ち果てるくちはてる

  to rot away; to crumble to dust; to decay completely; to fall to ruins; to rust away

• 老朽化ろうきゅうか
  N1

  deterioration; becoming decrepit; becoming worn out

• 不朽の名作ふきゅうのめいさく

  timeless masterpiece; immortal work

• 不朽不滅ふきゅうふめつ

  everlasting; eternal; immortal; imperishable; undying

• 乾燥腐朽かんそうふきゅう

  dry rot

• 木材腐朽菌もくざいふきゅうきん

  wood-decay fungus; xylophagous fungus

• 朽ち葉くちば

  decayed leaves

• 朽ち葉色くちばいろ

  russet; tawny; yellow-brown

• 朽壊きゅうかい

  rotting and crumbling

• 朽廃きゅうはい

  decay; dilapidation

• 永垂不朽えいすいふきゅう

  one's fame or achievements being passed down eternally

• 腐朽菌ふきゅうきん

  wood-decay fungus; xylophagous fungus

• 若朽じゃっきゅう

  being young yet unambitious; being young but lacking spirit

• 蛇に噛まれて朽ち縄に怖じるへびにかまれてくちなわにおじる

  once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake)

• 青朽葉あおくちば

  bluish russet

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