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
- —滅菌剤sterilant; sterilizer; sterilizing agent
- —大絶滅mass extinction; extinction event
- —殲滅戦war of annihilation; war of extermination
- —光点滅light flashing
- —破滅的destructive; catastrophic; disastrous; ruinous; devastating
- —自滅的self-destructive; self-defeating; suicidal
- —支離滅裂incoherent; inconsistent; illogical; disorderly; confused; nonsensical
- —心頭滅却clearing one's mind of all worldly thoughts
- —生者必滅all living things must die
- —霊魂消滅annihilation
- —滅私奉公selfless devotion
- —証拠隠滅destruction of evidence
- —陰々滅々gloomy and depressing; mournful
- —罪障消滅expiation of sins
- —霊魂不滅immortality of the soul
- —滅多矢鱈reckless; indiscriminate
- —千古不滅everlasting; unchangeable; immortal
- —不朽不滅everlasting; eternal; immortal; imperishable; undying
- —寂滅為楽freedom from one's desires (entry into Nirvana) is true bliss
- —絶滅寸前Critically Endangered (conservation status); CE