| Kanji | 壊 |
|---|---|
| Onyomi | カイ、エ |
| Kunyomi | こわ.す、こわ.れる、やぶ.る |
| English | demolition, break, destroy |
| Examples | 崩壊(ほうかい): (1) collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in (2) decay (physics) 破壊(はかい): (1) destruction; disruption (2) (application) crash 壊す(こわす): (1) to break; to destroy; to demolish (2) to wreck; to ruin; to spoil; to damage (3) to break (a bill, etc.) 壊れる(こわれる): (1) to be broken; to break (2) to fall through; to come to nothing |
| JLPT Level | 1 |
| Jouyou Grade | S |
| Frequency | 727 |
| Components | 土: soil; earth; ground; Turkey 十: ten 网: net; net or net crown radical (no. 122) 衣: garment; clothes; dressing |
| Number of Strokes | 16 |
| Kanji Radical | 土 |
| Radical Number | 32 |
| Radical Strokes | 3 |
| Radical Reading | つち・つちへん・どへん |
| Traditional Form | 壞 |
| Classification | 形声 Phonetic |
| Keyword | demolition |
| Koohii Story 1 | If you stand too close to a DEMOLITION site, the dust might sting you like NEEDLES in your EYE and get your GARMENTs all dirty. |
| Koohii Story 2 | Since that needle eye thing turns up a lot, I turned it into Darth Vader. It kinda looks like him to me, with the eye being his metal mouth piece thing. So, Darth Vader swings his cape (his garment) demolishing a nearby building, leaving nothing but a pile of dirt. |
| RTK Index | 400 |
Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq501-750
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