潰 — crush, smash, break

つぶす潰 crush

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 15 strokes

U+6F70 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #1911 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

crush
smash
break
dissipate

word

つぶ tsubu 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).

潰(つぶ) す tsubusu to crush 潰(つぶ) れる tsubureru to be crushed

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

き貴 precious

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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.

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