collapse, fall into, cave in, fall (castle), slide into
陥 centers on a sudden downward movement into a trap or hollow: collapsing, caving in, or falling into a bad situation. The castle-fall sense is a specific application of that same idea of structural failure.
陥 is the modern simplified form of 陷. The older form combines ⻖ (mound, hill) with 臽, which likely depicts a person falling into a pit and contributes both sound and the idea of collapsing or falling in.
The left side ⻖ suggests a steep slope or mound. The right side looks like a person or object dropping into a hollow space. Picture a hillside giving way and everything sliding into a sudden cave-in.
For カン, imagine a can falling into a pit and collapsing: can -> カン, and the can caves in as it hits the bottom.
to fall into (e.g. a hole)
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage; gap
subsidence; sinking; cave-in; collapse; falling in
cave-in; collapse; sinking; depression (e.g. of the skull); subsidence
to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to throw (e.g. into turmoil); to trick (into doing); to lure (into a trap); to frame (for a crime)
Fall of Berlin (1945)
to entrap a person
demotion from ōzeki ranking
surrender; fall
tempting into crime
lattice defect
defective housing
defective item; defective product; defective merchandise
defective merchandise
defective car; car with a (structural) defect
attention deficit
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHD
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHD
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHD
attention deficit disorder; ADD