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壊崩 (かいほう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

壊かい崩ほう

Meanings

1

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

collapse; crumbling; breaking down

archaic

Archaic noun and suru-verb meaning the same as modern 崩壊. Found in older texts; not used in contemporary Japanese.

See also: 崩壊

古こ文ぶん書しょには「城しろの壊かい崩ほう」という表

ひょう

現げん

が

見み

られる

。

In old documents, the expression '壊崩 of the castle' can be found.

Written forms

壊かい崩ほうUsage100%
Archaic kanji spelling; the modern equivalent is 崩壊.
潰かい崩ほう
Variant archaic spelling; rarely encountered.

Kanji

壊demolition, break, destroy
崩crumble, die, demolish
潰crush, smash, break

Similar words

崩ほう壊かい
Modern standard word for collapse or breakdown. 壊崩 is the archaic reversed-compound form with the same meaning.

Etymology

Archaic compound of 壊 (break, destroy) and 崩 (crumble, collapse), equivalent to the modern 崩壊 with the characters in reverse order. The exact historical derivation is uncertain.