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
- —深層崩壊deep-seated landslide
- —破壊活動subversive activities; sabotage
- —涙腺崩壊crying one's eyes out; being on the verge of breaking into a flood of tears
- —破壊力学fracture mechanics
- —疲労破壊fatigue fracture; fatigue failure
- —死体損壊mutilation of a corpse; damaging a dead body
- —破壊衝動destructive impulse
- —原子破壊機cyclotron
- —破壊主義者destructionist
- —せん断破壊shear failure
- —原子核崩壊nuclear decay
- —放射性崩壊radioactive decay
- —ベータ崩壊beta decay
- —破壊読取りdestructive read
- —バブル崩壊collapse of a bubble economy; economic bubble burst
- —大規模半壊partial building damage comprising 50-70% of the surface area
- —非破壊検査nondestructive testing; NDT; nondestructive inspection
- —器物損壊罪(crime of) damaging property (including animals, and excluding buildings, ships and documents)
- —死体損壊罪(crime of) damaging a corpse; mutilation of a corpse
- —大量破壊兵器weapon of mass destruction; WMD