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壞

壞 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. こわす。
  2. こわれる。
  3. いとわしい。状況が悪い。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「土」+音符「褱」。｛壞｝（こわれる、くずれる）を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

demolition, break, destroy

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • カイ
  • エ
Kun (native)
  • こわ(す)
  • こわ(れる)
  • やぶ(る)
Other languages
  • 拼音huai4
  • 拼音pi1
  • 한글goe
  • 한글hoe
  • Hán-ViệtHoại

Basics

Strokes
19 strokes
Radical
土(つち)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+58DE

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰土褱

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-16
Four Corner
4013.2
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3b13.3
Nelson
1154