トウ, たお.れる, -だお.れ, たお.す
overthrow, fall, collapse, drop, break down

This kanji has 10 strokes: 2 in the "person" radical (ひと) and 8 other strokes.

Sample compounds (22) :


  1. たおす
    (vt) to throw down, to beat, to bring down, to blow down, to fell, to knock down, to trip up, to defeat, to ruin, to overthrow, to kill, to leave unpaid, to cheat
  2. ける
    こける
    (oK) to fall, to collapse, to drop, to break down, to die, to succumb to, to fall senseless, to be ruined, to have a bad debt
  3. さま
    さかさま
    (a-no) (an) inversion, upside down
  4. れる
    たおれる
    (vi) to collapse, to break down, to go bankrupt, to fall, to drop, to die, to succumb to, to fall senseless, to be ruined, to have a bad debt

  5. さかさまごと
    wrong order

  6. たおれふす
    to fall down
  7. れる
    ふしたおれる
    to fall down

  8. くらいだおれ
    inability to live up to one's rank

  9. とうく
    reading Chinese in the Japanese order

  10. あっとう
    (vs) overwhelm, overpower, overwhelming

  11. とうかい
    (vs) destruction, collapse

  12. さかさま
    (a-no) (an) inversion, upside down

  13. なぐりたおす
    to knock down

  14. とうさん
    (vs) bankruptcy, insolvency

  15. とうち
    (vs) turning upside down, placing nonessentials before essentials

  16. ばとう
    (vs) abuse, disparagement

  17. とうばく
    (vs) overthrow of the shogunate

  18. なぎたおす
    to mow down, to beat

  19. とうご
    inverted word

  20. てんとう
    turn over, invert, reverse

  21. めんどう
    (an) trouble, difficulty, care, attention

  22. くいたおす
    to bilk, to eat up one's fortune
Kanji Character : 倒
Kuten Encoding : 3761
SJIS Encoding : 455d
Unicode Encoding : 5012
Old Nelson Index : 487
Radical Number : 9
Frequency Ranking : 1104
Gakken Index : 1188
Grade Level : 8
Halpern Index : 124
Heisig Index : 980
Henshall Index : 1643
New Nelson Index : 256
Stroke Count : 10
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 2a8.5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 2
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 8
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : a
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 5
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 905
SKIP Code : 1-2-8
De Roo Code : 2143
Four Corner Code : 2220.0
Korean reading : do
Pinyin reading : dao4
Morohashi Index String : 767
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 1.0862
Morohashi Index Number : 767
Morohashi Page : 862
Morohashi Volume : 1
Dictionary Codes
  1. R2143
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