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衰 kanji
decline, wane, weaken
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
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Words with 衰
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —衰滅decline; downfall; ruin(ation)
- —五衰five signs of the impending death of a heavenly being
- —減衰器attenuator
- —減衰率attenuation (factor, rate)
- —減衰量attenuation
- —衰退期phase of decline; ebb; twilight
- —衰弱死death from prostration; death from emaciation
- —栄枯盛衰ups and downs of life; vicissitudes of fortune
- —神経衰弱neurasthenia; nervous breakdown; concentration; memory; matching pairs
- —全身衰弱general prostration
- —盛者必衰even the prosperous inevitably decay; sic transit gloria mundi; all that's fair must fade
- —興亡盛衰rise and fall; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes
- —消長盛衰prosperity and decay; rise and fall; ebb and flow; vicissitudes (of fortune)
- —盛衰興亡rise and fall; ups and downs; waxing and waning; prosperity and decline; vicissitudes
- —減衰定数damping ratio; decay constant
- —減衰係数attenuation coefficient
- —減衰時間deceleration time
- —減衰歪みattenuation distortion
- —荷重減衰weight decay
- —衰退一途(falling into a) continuous decline; being on the wane