倒れる
たおれる · taoreru · JLPT N4 · verb-ichidan
to collapse
🌳 taoreru: the tower-ru falls over — 倒 = person 亻 + arrive 到, hitting the ground
倒 combines 亻(person) with 到 (to arrive): a person arriving at the ground. Sound hook: ta-o-re-ru sounds like tower-ru, and a tower is the classic thing that collapses. Intransitive partner of 倒す (taosu, to knock down).
倒 — person radical 亻 + 到 (to arrive)
倒 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the person radical 亻 gives meaning (an action done by/to a person), while 到 supplies the sound 'dào'. Originally meaning 'to fall over' (a person toppling), it extended to 'invert, upside down, pour out', as when something falls and spills.