砕
砕 — Smash
smash, break, crush, familiar, popular
On’yomiサイ (sai)
Kun’yomiくだく (kudaku)
Kun’yomiくだける (kudakeru)
Stroke order (9 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 砕
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 火砕流 | かさいりゅう kasairyuu | pyroclastic flow |
| 砕く | くだく kudaku | to break (into pieces); to smash; to crush |
| 砕ける | くだける kudakeru | to break (into pieces); to be broken; to be smashed |
| 粉砕 | ふんさい funsai | pulverization; pulverisation; reducing to pieces |
| 玉砕 | ぎょくさい gyokusai | honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat |
| 砕石 | さいせき saiseki | crushed stone; macadam; crushing (rock) |
Study notes
砕 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 9 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1579 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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