What is the kanji for the word ずれる?


ずれる - `1) slip out of place, get out of position, shift, slide 2)"get out of
touch with" or "off" when used of a person`

I got curious about what the kanji of the word ずれる is because computers and
smartphones don't display any candidates for it. Some google searching made it
seem like there isn't one. This seemed absurd to me. How could such a common
word not be assigned a character in the course of the hundreds of years that
kanji were introduced into Japanese? Unless, it's a new word. But that seems
hard to believe too.

So far, the best candidate is 滑. But, only the EDICT2 dictionary mentioned
this possibility prefacing the definition with `possibly written 滑れる`.
Unfortunately, looking ずれる and 滑 up in the 研究社新和英大辞典 and 漢字源dictionaries did
not confirm anything.

So, is it true that there is no kanji for it? Or is there conclusive evidence
that 滑 is in fact the right kanji?




言海, a dictionary published in ~~1981~~ 1891,
[says](https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=sN_Sks7NHSAC&dq=%E3%81%9A%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B&hl=ja&pg=PA729#v=onepage&q=%E3%81%9A%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B&f=false)
ずれる is a corrupted form of 摩るる【するる】, "to rub; to friction". I think this may
explain why ずれる has no kanji. Words formed via sound change (such as ひょっとこ)
don't necessarily have kanji.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AsO6t.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AsO6t.png)




言海, a dictionary published in ~~1981~~ 1891,
[says](https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=sN_Sks7NHSAC&dq=%E3%81%9A%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B&hl=ja&pg=PA729#v=onepage&q=%E3%81%9A%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8B&f=false)
ずれる is a corrupted form of 摩るる【するる】, "to rub; to friction". I think this may
explain why ずれる has no kanji. Words formed via sound change (such as ひょっとこ)
don't necessarily have kanji.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AsO6t.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AsO6t.png)

