滅
Stroke Order
Meanings
- destroy
- ruin
- overthrow
- perish
On'yomi (音読み)
- メツ
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
- ほろ.びる
- ほろ.ぶ
- ほろ.ぼす
- Strokes
- 13
- JLPT Level
- N1
- Frequency
- #836
- School Grade
- Secondary
- Radical
- 水#85 · water
Components
- ノ
- 火
- 氵
- 戈
Common Words
- 滅多めったna-Adj.thoughtless, reckless, careless, rash
- 滅亡めつぼうNoundownfall, ruin, collapse, destruction
- 滅びるほろびるIchidanto go to ruin, to go under, to fall, to be destroyed, to die out, to become extinct, to perish
- 滅ぼすほろぼすGodanto destroy, to overthrow, to wreck, to ruin
- 滅多にめったにAdverbrarely, seldom
- 滅茶苦茶めちゃくちゃna-Adj.absurd, unreasonable, nonsensical, preposterous, incoherent
- 隠滅いんめつNoundestruction (esp. of evidence), spoliation, suppression
- 壊滅かいめつNoun(complete) destruction, annihilation, devastation
Practice in Kanjiru
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