Emaki · all 1,500 words

倒れる

たおれる

to collapse, to fall down

Mnemonic

A person arriving on the floor, and this time nobody put them there. The same Ta たお as 倒す, except that nobody said it: he was fine at the table and then he was not: たおれる.

Worth knowing

倒す たおす is you knocking it down. 倒れる is it going over, and of a person it means collapsing.

Built from

knock down, fall
亻 a person with 到 reaching its destination beside them, except this one arrives on the floor.

Words sharing these kanji

to bring down, to overthrow annoying, troublesome

This is one of 1,500 words in Emaki, a free spaced repetition trainer with a written mnemonic on every card.

Study 倒れる in Emaki

Free, no account needed. Your progress stays in your browser.

Emaki is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Kaishi 1.5k or its authors. The word, reading and meaning come from the Kaishi 1.5k deck, used with their permission. The mnemonic, the note and the kanji breakdown are original work, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.