Japanese symbol for “rout”
総崩れ
そうくずれ
Romaji: soukuzure
rout; collapse
In Japanese, rout is 総崩れ, read そうくずれ (soukuzure).
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Meanings
- n rout; collapse
Kanji and stroke order
Other Japanese words for “rout”
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 敗走 | はいそう haisou | flight; rout; debacle |
| 潰走 | かいそう kaisou | rout; stampede |
| 追い散らす | おいちらす oichirasu | to drive away; to scatter; to rout |
| 走らす | はしらす hashirasu | to rout (the enemy); to put to flight |
| ボロ負け | ぼろまけ boromake | (suffering a) decisive defeat; rout; thrashing |
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 総合 | そうごう sougou | synthesis; combination; integration |
| 総理 | そうり souri | prime minister (as the head of a cabinet government); premier |
| 総裁 | そうさい sousai | president (of an organization); director general; governor (of a central bank) |
| 総会 | そうかい soukai | general meeting |
| 総数 | そうすう sousuu | total (number); count |
| 総務 | そうむ soumu | general affairs; general business; manager |
| 崩壊 | ほうかい houkai | collapse; crumbling; breaking down |
| 崩れる | くずれる kuzureru | to collapse; to crumble |
See also: Chinese symbol for “rout”.
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.