Kanji
N2 9 strokes Grade 8 freq #1099

laid waste, rough, rude, wild

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

grass kusa

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

logs in bark; rough wood
ruin; destruction
raging waves; stormy seas
wasteland; wilderness
rough-and-ready (medical) treatment; drastic remedy
absurd; nonsensical
stormy weather
(theatrical) fighting scene
unheard-of; unprecedented
rough sea; stormy sea

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to become stormy; to become rough (of the sea)
stormy weather; tempest
to lay waste; to devastate
to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)
great storm; very severe weather
to wreak damage on; to cause trouble to
wild; violent
rough; wild
to fall into ruin; to become dilapidated
to blow violently; to sweep over

Example sentences

The war wasted the country.

The devastation in Kobe was as terrible as I had imagined.

He is often wild.

In winter, our lips get chapped.