決壊

See also: 決潰 and 决溃

Japanese

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

Etymology

is a daiyōji replacing .

Pronunciation

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

Noun

(けっ)(かい) • (kekkai) 

  1. collapse
    ダム決壊(けっかい)原因(げんいん)は、建設資金(けんせつしきん)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

(けっ)(かい)する • (kekkai suru) suru (stem (けっ)(かい) (kekkai shi), past (けっ)(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. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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