Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high
JLPT level: N1
1579 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke count: 9
Meaning: smash, break, crush, familiar, popular
Kunyomi: くだ.く くだ.ける
Onyomi: サイ
Composition: 石 卆
Radical: 石
Meaning: stone
砕石 (サイセキ) crushed stone, macadam, crushing (rock)
砕岩機 (サイガンキ) rock crusher
破砕 (ハサイ) crushing (into pieces), smashing, cracking, breaking up
玉砕 (ギョクサイ) honourable defeat, honorable defeat, honourable death, honorable death, death without surrender, trying but being utterly beaten, being completely rejected when professing one's love
砕く (くだく) to break, to smash
砕ける (くだける) to break (into pieces), to be broken, to be smashed, to collapse, to crumble, to decline, to cool (e.g. enthusiasm), to dampen (e.g. one's will to fight), to become less formal, to throw off reserve, to become affable, to become easy to understand (e.g. a story), to be worried
Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high
JLPT level: N1
1579 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke count: 9
Meaning: smash, break, crush, familiar, popular
Kunyomi: くだ.く くだ.ける
Onyomi: サイ
Composition: 石 卆
Radical: 石
Meaning: stone
砕石 (サイセキ) crushed stone, macadam, crushing (rock)
砕岩機 (サイガンキ) rock crusher
破砕 (ハサイ) crushing (into pieces), smashing, cracking, breaking up
玉砕 (ギョクサイ) honourable defeat, honorable defeat, honourable death, honorable death, death without surrender, trying but being utterly beaten, being completely rejected when professing one's love
砕く (くだく) to break, to smash
砕ける (くだける) to break (into pieces), to be broken, to be smashed, to collapse, to crumble, to decline, to cool (e.g. enthusiasm), to dampen (e.g. one's will to fight), to become less formal, to throw off reserve, to become affable, to become easy to understand (e.g. a story), to be worried