壊 — kanji meaning “demolition”
壊
demolition, break, destroy
- Meanings
- demolition, break, destroy
- On'yomi
- カイ (kai)、エ (e)
- Kun'yomi
- こわ.す、こわ.れる、やぶ.る
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #727 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 32
- Chinese reading
- huài, pī
Words with 壊
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破壊 | はかい hakai | destruction; disruption |
| 崩壊 | ほうかい houkai | collapse; crumbling; breaking down |
| 壊す | こわす kowasu | to break; to destroy; to demolish |
| 壊れる | こわれる kowareru | to be broken; to break; to fall apart |
| 壊滅 | かいめつ kaimetsu | (complete) destruction; annihilation; devastation |
| 倒壊 | とうかい toukai | destruction; collapse; crumbling |
| 損壊 | そんかい sonkai | damage; destruction |
| 取り壊し | とりこわし torikowashi | demolition; pulling down; destruction |
| 壊死 | えし eshi | necrosis |
| 決壊 | けっかい kekkai | burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse |
| 全壊 | ぜんかい zenkai | complete destruction |
| 半壊 | はんかい hankai | partial destruction |
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