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
- —破壊分子subversive; subversive element
- —崩壊寸前on the brink of collapse; in a state of near-collapse
- —器物損壊property damage (not including ships, buildings, planes and documents)
- —細胞崩壊cytolysis; breakdown of cells by the destruction of their outer membrane
- —抗壊血病antiscorbutic; preventive against scurvy
- —価格破壊sudden, wide-spread drop in prices
- —崩壊系列decay chain; decay series
- —重力崩壊gravitational collapse
- —破壊加算destructive addition
- —非破壊的non-destructive
- —学級崩壊class disruption (e.g. due to discipline problems); classroom chaos
- —作画崩壊inconsistently, horribly drawn animated film or cartoon; animated cartoon episode of lower picture quality than other episodes in the same series
- —壊変毎分disintegration per minute; dpm
- —自己破壊self-destruction; self-sabotage
- —放射壊変radioactive decay
- —破壊靭性fracture toughness
- —壊変毎秒decays per second; disintegrations per second; dps
- —山体崩壊debris avalanche (of a volcano); collapse of volcanic edifice; sector collapse
- —家庭崩壊family breakdown; family disintegration; collapse of one's family
- —医療崩壊collapse of the medical care system; medical care breakdown