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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)

証拠隠滅しょうこいんめつ

destruction of evidence

生滅しょうめつ

birth and death

廃滅はいめつ

decay

敗滅はいめつ

scattered or crushed in defeat

陰々滅々いんいんめつめつ

gloomy and depressing

討ち滅ぼすうちほろぼす

to destroy

衰滅すいめつ

decline

罪滅ぼしつみほろぼし

atonement (for one's sins)

expiation of sins

mortality

complete overthrow

immortality of the soul

滅相めっそう

extravagant

族滅ぞくめつ

putting an entire family to death

滅多に見られないめったにみられない

rarely seen

滅度めつど

extinguishing illusion and passing over to Nirvana

to go to ruin

obliteration

extinct species

everlasting

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