漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
砕: smash, break
Also: crush, familiar, popular
JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 石stone(meaning)
- 卆(sound)
石 carries the meaning · 卆 gives the sound
9 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
サイsai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 火砕流かさいりゅうpyroclastic flow
- 粉砕ふんさいpulverization; pulverisation
- 玉砕ぎょくさいhonorable death; death without surrender
- 破砕はさいcrushing (into pieces); smashing; cracking
くだくkudaku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 砕くくだくto break (into pieces); to smash; to crush
くだけるkudakeru · kun'yomi
- 砕けるくだけるto break (into pieces); to be broken
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine walking along a steep cliff and discovering a solid, square stone lying at the bottom. This is the essence of hardness and durability.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side砕 smash · 卆
vs研 polish · 开In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 碎 · suì
砕 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 碎 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 碎 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 碎 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin suì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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