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滅 kanji
destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
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Kun readings
ほろびるほろぶほろぼす
Words with 滅
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3絶滅Popularextinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out
- N3滅多にPopularrarely; seldom
- N1全滅Populartotal destruction; complete destruction; annihilation; being wiped out; total defeat; complete failure
- N1滅亡Populardownfall; ruin; collapse; destruction
- —隠滅Populardestruction (esp. of evidence); spoliation; suppression; hiding; concealment
- —壊滅Popular(complete) destruction; annihilation; devastation
- —幻滅Populardisillusionment; disillusion; disenchantment
- —自滅Popularself-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
- —消滅Popularextinction; extinguishment; disappearance; vanishing; termination; lapse; annihilation
- —点滅Popularswitching on and off (of a light); flashing; blinking; flickering
- —破滅Popularruin; destruction; fall
- —撲滅Populareradication; extermination; destruction; suppression
- —滅多Popularthoughtless; reckless; careless; rash; ordinary; usual; common; excessive; indiscriminate
- —滅destruction; ruin; extinction; nirvana; cessation (of earthly desires); death (esp. of the Buddha or a high monk); dying (from overwhelming emotion); being overwhelmed (by something)
- —撃滅destruction; annihilation; extermination
- —入滅entering Nirvana; death (of Buddha, high priest, saint, etc.)
- —不滅immortal; undying; indestructible
- —仏滅Buddha's death; very unlucky day (in the traditional calendar)
- —滅却extinguishment; destruction; effacement
- —滅法extraordinarily; astonishingly; extremely; terribly; awfully; unreasonably; absurdly; extraordinary; outrageous; absurd; unreasonable; unconditioned dharma