First opened Sunday, February 10, 2013
雪崩
なだれ
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
avalanche
Nadare is the stem of the classical verb 傾る (nadaru), and its kanji spelling is jukujikun, borrowed from Chinese 雪崩 (xuěbēng).
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
In a sentence
今頃の時期はなだれに注意しなければならない。
You have to watch out for avalanches at this time of the year.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of the classical verb 傾る (nadaru), modern 雪崩れる, 傾れる (nadareru, “to slope, descend; of snow, to slide”).”
- “The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)), borrowed from Chinese 雪崩 (xuěbēng).”
Source: Wiktionary: 雪崩 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.
- Ateji
- Kanji chosen for their sound or sense after the word existed.