Kanji1 / 13
滅 kanji
destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
ほろびるほろぶほろぼす
Words with 滅
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —滅裂in chaos; incoherent
- —殲滅annihilation; extermination; (total) destruction; wiping out
- —摩滅defacement; abrasion; wear and tear; crushing of a nerve
- —掃滅wiping out; annihilation
- —明滅flickering; blinking
- —寂滅achieving nirvana; death
- —滅私selflessness; being unselfish
- —滅菌sterilization; sterilisation
- —死滅extinction; annihilation; destruction
- —生滅birth and death
- —廃滅decay; ruination
- —敗滅scattered or crushed in defeat
- —衰滅decline; downfall; ruin(ation)
- —必滅mortality
- —覆滅complete overthrow; complete destruction; ruination
- —滅相extravagant; absurd
- —族滅putting an entire family to death; eradicating a whole family
- —滅度extinguishing illusion and passing over to Nirvana
- —滅殺obliteration; annihilation
- —殄滅complete and utter annihilation