崩
This character means ‘to crumble, fall to pieces, collapse.’ It’s pronounced HŌ and kuzusu in Japanese, and in Chinese it’s bēng.
The upper figure
山
means ‘mountain,’ and the representation is pretty transparent. Three peaks. The lower part of the character consists of two of these:
月.
And each of them means ‘moon, month.’ They are just there as phonetic clues to the pronunciation of the word.
The archaic forms
suggest a way of remembering the character’s meaning. Can you see the moon characters as a representation of an avalanche down the slopes of the mountain?
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