Practice JLPT
壊
JLPT N1 Kanji

壊 — demolition, break, destroy

  • JLPT N1
  • 16 strokes
  • Secondary (Jōyō)
  • Radical 土
  • #727 most frequent

Readings

On'yomi
カイエ
Kun'yomi
こわ.すこわ.れるやぶ.る

Example words

  • 崩壊ほうかい(1) collapse; crumbling; breaking down; caving in (2) decay (physics)
  • 破壊はかい(1) destruction; disruption (2) (application) crash
  • 壊すこわす(1) to break; to destroy; to demolish (2) to wreck; to ruin; to spoil; to damage (3) to break (a bill, etc.)
  • 壊れるこわれる(1) to be broken; to break (2) to fall through; to come to nothing