Kanji
毀
N1
13 strokes
Grade 8
break, destroy, censure, be chipped, be scratched
On'yomi (音読み)
キ
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
こぼ.つ、 こわ.す、 こぼ.れる、 こわ.れる、 そし.る、 やぶ.る
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
毀損
きそん
damage; injury
名誉毀損罪
めいよきそんざい
(crime of) defamation; libel
文書毀棄罪
ぶんしょききざい
(crime of) damaging or concealing documents; spoliation offense
文書毀棄
ぶんしょきき
damaging documents; concealing documents
毀棄罪
ききざい
(crime of) damaging property; destruction of property
哀毀骨立
あいきこつりつ
losing weight and becoming bony because of grief
毀壊
きかい
breaking; demolishing
焼毀
しょうき
completely destroying by fire
誹毀
ひき
defamation; libel
廃仏毀釈
はいぶつきしゃく
abolish Buddhism, destroy Shākyamuni (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era)
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
毀れる
こぼれる
to be chipped; to be nicked
身体髪膚これを父母に受くあえて毀傷せざるは孝の始めなり
しんたいはっぷこれをふぼにうくあえてきしょうせざるはこうのはじめなり
filial piety begins with not harming one's own body (as one's entire body was given by one's parents)
毀れ
こぼれ
nick; chip
毀つ
こぼつ
to destroy; to break
Example sentences
その女優（じょゆう）は雑誌（ざっし）を名誉（めいよ）き損（そん）で訴（うった）えた。
The actress sued the magazine for libel.