Kanji
N1 16 strokes Grade 8 freq #727

demolition, break, destroy

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

earth tsuchi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

collapse; crumbling
destruction; disruption
(complete) destruction; annihilation
damage; destruction
destruction; collapse
necrosis
burst (e.g. dam, embankment, levee); breach
complete destruction
partial destruction
disintegration

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to break; to destroy
to be broken; to break
demolition; pulling down
to demolish; to tear down

Example sentences

During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.

This incident led the movement to collapse.

The storm destroyed the whole town.

Much of London was destroyed in the seventeenth century.