Kanji1 / 16
壊 kanji
demolition, break, destroy
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 16
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
カイエ
Kun readings
こわすこわれるやぶる
Variant forms
壞Words with 壊
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1破壊Populardestruction; disruption; (application) crash
- N1崩壊Popularcollapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
- —壊滅Popular(complete) destruction; annihilation; devastation
- —損壊Populardamage; destruction
- —壊乱corruption (of order, public morals, etc.); subversion; degradation; collapse (of an organization, system, etc.); falling apart
- —決壊burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach; collapse; washout; rupture
- —全壊complete destruction
- —半壊partial destruction
- —自壊disintegration; self-destruction
- —朽壊rotting and crumbling
- —倒壊destruction; collapse; crumbling
- —壊変(radioactive) decay; disintegration
- —圧壊crushing; breaking by applying pressure
- —壊崩collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in
- —毀壊breaking; demolishing; smashing; destroying; wrecking; being broken; being ruined; being destroyed; being worn out
- —壊国destroying a country
- —投壊collapse of a team's entire pitching lineup
- —壊血病scurvy
- —破壊者destroyer
- —破壊的destructive; devastating