決壊

See also: 決潰 and 决溃

Japanese

Kanji in this term
決 壊
けつ > けっ
Grade: 3
かい
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
決潰 (dated)

Etymology

壊 is a daiyōji replacing 潰.

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) けっかい [kèkkáí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ke̞k̚ka̠i]

Noun

決(けっ)壊(かい) • (kekkai) 

  1. collapse
    ダム決壊(けっかい)の原因(げんいん)は、建設資金(けんせつしきん)の横流(よこなが)しにある。
    Damu kekkai no gen'in wa, kensetsu shikin no yokonagashi ni aru.
    The cause of the dam collapse is corruption.

Verb

決(けっ)壊(かい)する • (kekkai suru) suru (stem 決(けっ)壊(かい)し (kekkai shi), past 決(けっ)壊(かい)した (kekkai shita))

  1. to collapse
    ダムが決壊(けっかい)した。
    Damu ga kekkai shita.
    The dam collapsed.

Conjugation

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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