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Kanji Detail for 毀 - "destroy, damage"

毀

  • Meaning

    毀 means "destroy, damage." Also associated with slander.

    1. Destroy - To break apart; to ruin.

    2. Damage - To harm; to injure.

    3. Slander - To speak ill of; to defame.

  • Words using 毀

    • 毀損 きそん Listen damage; injury; defamation

  • Four-character idioms with 毀

    • 哀毀骨立 あいきこつりつ Listen losing weight and becoming bony because of grief
    • 廃仏毀釈 はいぶつきしゃく Listen abolish Buddhism, destroy Shākyamuni (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era)
    • 毀誉褒貶 きよほうへん Listen praise and censure; public criticisms

  • Tattoo check: 毀

    • Verified meaning: destroy, damage
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: slander

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    break; destroy; censure; be chipped; be scratched; be broken; be ruined

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    destroy, ruin, injure; slander

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to damage, to ruin; to defame, to slander

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To destroy. As in 毀 | Grief. As in 哀毀 (grief-stricken). | To slander. Meaning to speak ill of others. As in 毀譽 (slander and praise).

  • Onyomi

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    ki(キ) キ

  • Kunyomi

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    kobo.reru(こぼ-れる) こぼ-れる

    kobo.tsu(こぼ-つ) こぼ-つ

    kowa.reru(こわ-れる) こわ-れる

    kowa.su(こわ-す) こわ-す

    soshiru(そし-る) そし-る

    yabu.ru(やぶ-る) やぶ-る

  • Strokes

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    13 strokes

  • Radical

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    殳 (hokozukuri・rumata)

  • Related Keywords

    destroy damage slander criticize insult harm injure ruin annihilate break crush deface defame demolish devastate disfigure dismantle eradicate impair ravage shatter spoil

Sentences including 毀

  • Mr Miura brought an action of libel against a weekly magazine.

  • It is a waste of effort to try and destroy the old. If we can truly renew ourselves, the old will already be destroyed.

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