Keyword
rot
Info
FrequencyTop 1300-1400
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 4
Heisig1099
Readings
くさ
(55%)
(37%)
(3%)
ぐさ
(3%)
Composed of
central office
meat
Mnemonic

You forgot your meat at the central office, but it's closed now so it's going to rot by the time the office opens up again.

Used in vocabulary (145 in total)
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
decomposition; putrefaction; putrescence; corruption; degeneracy; decay
tofu; bean curd; beancurd
Examples (45 in total)
This town's way of thinking is rotten.
Eggs go bad quickly in the summer.
In the summer, eggs go bad quickly.