Kanji1 / 14
腐 kanji
rot, decay, sour
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
フ
Kun readings
くさる-くさるくされるくされくさらすくさす
Words with 腐
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1腐敗Populardecomposition; putrefaction; putrescence; spoilage; corruption; degeneracy; decay; depravity
- —陳腐Popularstale; hackneyed; clichéd
- —豆腐Populartofu; bean curd; beancurd
- —腐食Popularrot; decay; erosion; corrosion; etching; rust; saprophagy
- —腐心Populartaking great pains (to do); making every effort; having a lot of trouble (doing); racking one's brains
- —腐朽decay; deterioration; rot
- —腐肉carrion; decaying flesh; tainted meat
- —防腐preservation from decay; prevention of putrefaction; embalmment; antisepsis
- —腐乱decomposition; ulceration
- —腐儒pedant; worthless scholar
- —腐刑castration
- —腐臭smell of something rotten; rotten smell
- —腐植humus
- —貴腐noble rot; Botrytis cinerea infection, esp. of grapes
- —腐生saprophagy
- —腐兄man who likes comics depicting male homosexual love (usually targeted to women)
- —腐乳fermented tofu; furu
- —腐熟composting
- —腐泥sapropel
- —腐卵rotten egg; addled egg