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滅

JLPT N1 13 strokes Frequency: #1222

Meanings

Destroy, Ruin, Overthrow, Perish

Radicals

氵

Decomposition

⿰氵烕

Etymology

Ideographic: To extinguish a flame 烕 with water 氵; 烕 also provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

2 dot bottom-to-top

3 rising bottom-to-top

4 diagonal top-to-bottom

5 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

7 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

8 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

9 diagonal top-to-bottom

10 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

11 hook right-to-left

12 diagonal right-to-left

13 dot right-to-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

メツ metsu

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ほろ horo

Words Using This Kanji

108 words total

Other (20 words)

撃滅げきめつ

destruction

幻滅げんめつ

disillusionment

攻め滅ぼすせめほろぼす

to attack and overthrow

incoherent

self-destruction

extinction

clearing one's mind of all worldly thoughts

生者必滅しょうじゃひつめつ

all living things must die

extinction

total destruction

to destroy

switching on and off (of a light)

switch (for a light)

entering Nirvana

absurd

ruin

immortal

Buddha's death

eradication

(complete) destruction

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