壊

壊 — demolition, break, destroy

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 16
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #727 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: かい kai

え e
Kun'yomi: こわ.す kowa.su

こわ.れる kowa.reru

やぶ.る yabu.ru

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 壊

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