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人雪崩 (ひとなだれ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

人雪崩ひとなだれ

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Meanings

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noun

surging crowd; stampede of people

rare term

Rare term for a crowd moving like an avalanche; often used in news or literary descriptions of dangerous crowd surges.

祭まつりで人ひと雪崩なだれが起おき、けが人にんが出でた。
A surging crowd occurred at the festival, causing injuries.

Written forms

人雪崩ひとなだれ
Standard kanji spelling for this rare term.
人頽ひとなだれ
Rare kanji form using 頽.
人頽ひとなだれ
Rare kanji form with okurigana.

Kanji

人person
雪

snow

崩crumble, die, demolish

頽decline, slide

Similar words

群ぐん衆しゅう
群衆 is a general term for a crowd, while 人雪崩 specifically emphasizes a dangerous, avalanche-like surge.
雪崩なだれ
雪崩 means 'avalanche' (of snow); 人雪崩 metaphorically extends this to a human crowd.

Etymology

Compound of 人 (hito, 'person') and 雪崩 (nadare, 'avalanche'), literally 'human avalanche'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term is a metaphorical extension of the snow avalanche concept to describe a surging crowd.