雪崩なだれ

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

noun

avalanche; snowslide

General term for a mass of snow sliding down a mountain.

昨さく夜やの大おお雪ゆきで雪崩なだれが発はっ生せいした。
An avalanche occurred due to last night's heavy snow.
スキー場じょうの近ちかくで雪崩なだれの危き険けんが高たかまっている。
The risk of avalanches is increasing near the ski resort.

noun

avalanche jōseki

usually written using kana alonego (game)

Go term for a large-scale corner pattern; usually written in katakana as ナダレ.

Usage patterns

〈場所ばしょ〉〉で雪崩なだれが発生はっせいするfor an avalanche to occur in a place
この山やまでは毎まい年ねん雪崩なだれが発はっ生せいする。
Avalanches occur every year on this mountain.
雪崩なだれに巻まき込こまれるto get caught up in an avalanche
スキー客きゃくが雪崩なだれに巻まき込こまれて救きゅう助じょされた。
A skier was caught in an avalanche and rescued.
雪崩なだれの危険きけんがあるthere is a risk of avalanche
この斜しゃ面めんには雪崩なだれの危き険けんがある。
There is a risk of avalanche on this slope.

Expressions

雪崩なだれを打うつsurge like an avalanche; flood; swarm; stampede

Kanji

雪snow
崩crumble, die, demolish

Related words

山やま崩くずれ sense 1
雪崩 is a mass of snow sliding down a mountain, while 山崩れ refers to a landslide of earth or rock collapsing from a slope.
地じすべり sense 1
雪崩 specifically involves snow, whereas 地滑り describes a slower slippage of soil or ground, often after heavy rain.

Don't confuse with

定じょう石せき sense 2
雪崩 (as ナダレ) names a specific famous Go corner pattern, while 定石 is the general term for any established Go sequence.

Word family

人雪崩ひとなだれ
surging crowd; stampede of people
雪ゆき雪崩なだれ
avalanche; snowslide
群ぐん衆しゅう雪崩なだれ
crowd collapse; crowd avalanche
表ひょう層そう雪崩なだれ
surface avalanche
雪な崩だれる
slope; descend gradually · slide down; avalanche

Written forms

雪崩なだれUsage72%
gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun
Standard kanji spelling for the general 'avalanche' sense.
なだれUsage20%
gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun
ナダレUsage7%
kana-only spelling
Katakana spelling is usual for the Go term 'avalanche jōseki'.

Etymology

The kanji 雪 (snow) and 崩 (crumble) combine to literally mean 'snow crumbling'. The reading なだれ is a jukujikun (special kanji reading) derived from the verb なだれる (to slope or slide down).