毀
damage; break; destroy; censure; be chipped; be scratched; be broken; be ruined
13 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school.
Readings
- キ (on reading): 廃仏毀釈 (はいぶつきしゃく) abolish Buddhism, destroy Shākyamuni (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era); 名誉毀損 (めいよきそん) libel
- こぼつ (kun reading): 毀つ (こぼつ) to destroy
- こわす (kun reading)
- こぼれる (kun reading)
- こわれる (kun reading)
- そしる (kun reading)
- やぶる (kun reading)
Components
- 臼
- 土
- 殳
- 几 radical table
- 又 radical again; right hand
- 土 radical earth
- 殳 radical weapon; strike
- 臼 radical mortar
Kanji containing 毀
- 燬 blaze
Words using 毀
- 廃仏毀釈 (はいぶつきしゃく) abolish Buddhism, destroy Shākyamuni (slogan of anti-Buddhist movement at the beginning of the Meiji era)
- 名誉毀損 (めいよきそん) libel
- 毀損 (きそん) damage
- 名誉毀損罪 (めいよきそんざい) (crime of) defamation
- 毀誉褒貶 (きよほうへん) praise and censure
- 毀つ (こぼつ) to destroy
17 words in all.