壊 — demolition, break, destroy

こわす壊 demolition

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 16 strokes

U+58CA Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #727 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #427 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

demolition
break
destroy

word

こわ kowa Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

壊(こわ) す kowasu to break 壊(こわ) れる kowareru to break

かい kai On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

破(は) 壊(かい) hakai destruction 崩(ほう) 壊(かい) houkai collapse 壊(かい) 滅(めつ) kaimetsu annihilation

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

つち土 earth #32

じゅう十 ten #24

罒 net (top form)

ころも衣 garment #145

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#32 土 earth