砕

common

サイ/SAI/    くだ.く/kuda.ku/    くだ.ける/kuda.keru/SAI/サイ/    kuda.ku/くだ.く/    kuda.keru/くだ.ける/

smash;  break;  crush;  familiar;  popular

Radical: 石 (stone).   Strokes: 9画.   Elements: ノ口十石九.   Variants: 碎.   Pinyin: suì.   Hangul: 쇄 [swae].

Jōyō Kanji High School.   JLPT N1.

Example compounds:
サイSAI砕石【さいせきsaiseki】broken stone; rubble
破砕【はさいhasai】crushing; smashing; cracking to pieces
玉砕【ぎょくさいgyokusai】honourable defeat; honorable defeat; honourable death; honorable death; death without surrender
くだくkudaku砕く【くだくkudaku】to break; to smash
かみ砕く【かみくだくkamikudaku】to crunch; to simplify
くだけるkudakeru砕ける【くだけるkudakeru】to break (into pieces); to collapse; to become less formal; to become easy to understand (e.g. a story); to be worried
腰が砕ける【こしがくだけるkoshigakudakeru】to collapse; to give up; to lose one's nerve; to have one's knees give way
Codepoints and classification codes:
7815–Unicode
26-53–JIS X 0208
1-5-4–SKIP
5a4.6–TKD
1464.1–Four Corner
3355–De Roo
Dictionary indices:
3179–Classic Nelson
3990–The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
1134–New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
773–Kanji Learner's Dictionary by J. Halpern
116–Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig
1695–A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (Gakken)
1467–Essential Kanji by P.G. O'Neill
24080P–Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 8 p. 348
1287–A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by K.G. Henshall
1710–Kanji & Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky
1568–Kanji Flashcards by M. Hodges and T. Okazaki
1287–Tuttle Kanji Cards by A. Kask
1550–Kanji in Context by Nishiguchi and Kono
1400–Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
117–Y. Maniette's French adaptation of Heisig
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