潰 — crush, smash, break

つぶす潰 crush

つぶす

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.

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Meanings

crush
smash
break
dissipate

Readings

On'yomi: かい kai え e
Kun'yomi: つぶ tsubu つい tsui

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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 暇(ひま) 潰(つぶ) し himatsubushi killing time 顔(かお) を潰(つぶ) す kaootsubusu to make someone lose face

Words by frequency and grade

4 words

Each dot is a word containing 潰: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 2 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

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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