砕 — kanji meaning “smash”
砕
smash, break, crush, familiar, popular
- Meanings
- smash, break, crush, familiar, popular
- On'yomi
- サイ (sai)
- Kun'yomi
- くだ.く、くだ.ける
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 1
- Newspaper frequency
- #1579 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 112
- Chinese reading
- suì
Words with 砕
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 粉砕 | ふんさい funsai | pulverization; pulverisation |
| 玉砕 | ぎょくさい gyokusai | honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat |
| 火砕流 | かさいりゅう kasairyuu | pyroclastic flow |
| 砕石 | さいせき saiseki | crushed stone; macadam |
| 破砕 | はさい hasai | crushing (into pieces); smashing; cracking |
| 砕く | くだく kudaku | to break (into pieces); to smash; to crush |
| 砕ける | くだける kudakeru | to break (into pieces); to be broken; to be smashed |
| 砕け | くだけ kudake | breaking (into pieces); shattering |
| 腰砕け | こしくだけ koshikudake | collapsing in the middle of a bout |
| 打ち砕く | うちくだく uchikudaku | to smash; to break (into pieces); to shatter |
| 砕氷 | さいひょう saihyou | ice breaking |
| 噛み砕く | かみくだく kamikudaku | to crunch; to masticate |
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