砕

smash, break, crush, familiar, popular

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

サイ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

くだ.くくだ.ける

Stroke Order

9 / 9

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:9

JLPT:N1

Frequency:1579

Vocabulary

サイ

Word	Reading	Meaning
火砕流	カサイリュウ	pyroclastic flow
玉砕	ギョクサイ	honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat; trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love
砕石	サイセキ	crushed stone; macadam; crushing (rock)
粉砕	フンサイ	pulverization; pulverisation; reducing to pieces; crushing; smashing; demolishing
破砕	ハサイ	crushing (into pieces); smashing; cracking; breaking up

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
砕く	くだく	to break (into pieces); to smash; to crush; to shatter; to grind (into powder); to pound; to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.); to crush; to frustrate; to simplify; to make easy to understand
砕ける	くだける	to break (into pieces); to be broken; to be smashed; to collapse; to crumble; to decline; to cool (e.g. enthusiasm); to dampen (e.g. one's will to fight); to become less formal; to throw off reserve; to become affable; to become easy to understand (e.g. a story); to be worried
腰砕け	こしくだけ	collapsing in the middle of a bout; breaking down (while in the middle of something); faltering halfway
圧砕	あっさい	crushing
圧砕機	あっさいき	grinder; crusher

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

polish, study of, sharpen

frame, framework, spindle, spool, bounding-box, (kokuji)

permit, approve

flock, group, crowd, herd, swarm, cluster

chic, style, purity, essence, pith, cream, elite, choice

rend, rip, tear, break, destroy, defeat, frustrate

accusation, sue, complain of pain, appeal to

tombstone, monument

happenstance, especially, intentionally, reason, cause, circumstances, the late, therefore, consequently