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
- —撲滅運動exterminatory measure; eradication campaign
- —常住不滅everlasting; forever unchanging; undying
- —苦集滅道Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)
- —不生不滅neither arising nor ceasing
- —消滅時効extinctive prescription; negative prescription; statute of limitations
- —是生滅法the law of arising and ceasing; the law of creation and destruction
- —生滅滅已going beyond life and death and entering Nirvana
- —一家全滅entire family is affected (disease, etc.); whole family
- —絶滅危機endangerment (of a species)
- —野生絶滅Extinct in the Wild (conservation status); EW
- —絶滅危惧threatened (species); endangered
- —乾熱滅菌dry-heat sterilization; hot-air sterilization
- —大量絶滅extinction event; mass extinction
- —素敵滅法very lovely; extremely nice; absolutely wonderful; truly splendid
- —自然消滅natural extinction; dying a natural death; coming to a natural end; ghosting; unexplained and sudden ending of all communication and contact with another person
- —汚職撲滅eradication of corruption
- —仏滅紀元Buddhist calendar
- —消滅会社absorbed company; merged corporation
- —鬼滅の刃Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (manga, anime)
- —滅多に無いrare