砕 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

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

Origin of the character

「碎」の略体。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

smash, break, crush, familiar, popular

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • サイJHS
Kun (native)
  • くだ(く)JHS
  • くだ(ける)JHS
Other languages
  • 拼音sui4
  • 한글swae
  • Hán-ViệtToái

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
石(いし)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+7815

Components

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

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰石卆

Words using this kanji

  • 砕石さいせき石を砕くこと。また、砕かれた石。crushed stone, macadam, crushing (rock)
  • 砕くくだく「くだく」参照。to break (into pieces), to smash, to crush, to shatter
  • 砕けるくだけるくだけるを参照。to break (into pieces), to be broken, to be smashed, to collapse
  • 砕けくだけbreaking (into pieces), shattering, something that has been broken into pieces, conclusion
  • 砕片さいへん砕けた破片。debris
  • 砕氷さいひょう氷を砕くこと。また、砕かれた氷。ice breaking
  • 砕鉱さいこう鉱石を砕き、その中に含まれる有用な鉱石を分離しやすくすること。crushing ore
  • 砕波さいは波が海岸付近で砕け落ちること。breaker, breaking wave, spilling breaker, surging breaker
  • 砕屑さいせつ岩石が破壊されより細かい粒子に分かれること。clastic
  • 砕身さいしん身を砕き、苦労すること。working so hard as to ruin one's body, struggling to the point of crushing oneself
  • 砕木さいぼくtimber grinding, timber pulping
  • 砕米さいまいbroken rice, rice fragments
  • 砕氷船さいひょうせん氷海の氷を割りながら航海できる船舶。icebreaker (ship), ice breaker
  • 砕岩機さいがんきrock crusher
  • 砕けたくだけたeasy (e.g. explanation, description), plain, familiar, informal (e.g. greeting, expression)
  • 砕屑岩さいせつがん岩石が砕屑されて出来た粒子が再び集まってできた岩石。clastic rock
  • 砕屑物さいせつぶつdetritus, clastic material
  • 砕屑丘さいせつきゅうpyroclastic cone
  • 砕氷艦さいひょうかんicebreaker (ship), ice breaker
  • 砕け波くだけなみbreaker, breaking wave, broken sea

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(62 results)

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-5-4
Four Corner
1464.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
5a4.6
Heisig
121
Nelson
3179