Jisho

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5 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
strike, beat, kow tow, hit, thrash, criticize
2316 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 叩解 【コウカイ】 beating (in papermaking), refining
  • 叩首 【コウシュ】 kowtow

Kun reading compounds

  • 叩く 【たたく】 to strike, to hit, to beat, to knock, to pound, to bang, to slap, to spank, to tap, to pat, to clap (one's hands), to play (the drums), to attack, to bash, to criticize, to censure, to flame (on the Internet), to sound out (someone's views), to pound (meat or fish), to chop into small pieces, to beat down the price, to talk (big, bad, idly, etc.), to call, to invoke (e.g. a function)
  • 叩く 【はたく】 to dust, to remove dust, to slap, to hit (with the palm), to use up money

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kou4
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • golpe
  • ataque
  • golpear
  • atacar
  • apalear
  • criticar

Portuguese

French

876 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
208 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3238 Morohashi
696 New Nelson (John Haig)
2166 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2285 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d2.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-2 SKIP code
6702.0 Four corner code
1-35-01 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53e9 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 壊滅 【カイメツ】 (complete) destruction, annihilation, devastation
  • 潰瘍 【カイヨウ】 ulcer
  • 全壊 【ゼンカイ】 complete destruction
  • 擂潰 【ライカイ】 grinding

Kun reading compounds

  • 潰す 【つぶす】 to smash, to crush, to flatten, to shut down, to put out of business, to force (a company) to close up shop, to wreck, to break, to block, to thwart, to butcher, to slaughter, to kill (livestock, for food), to kill (time), to while away (the time), to use up (one's time), to waste (e.g. talents)
  • 潰れる 【つぶれる】 to be crushed, to be squashed, to be smashed, to be destroyed, to be broken, to collapse, to go bankrupt, to go under, to fail, to collapse, to be ruined (of a plan), to be cancelled, to collapse (e.g. of a project), to fall through, to blow up, to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.), to cease functioning, to be taken up (of one's time), to be lost, to be wasted, to be missed (of a chance), to be lost, to be lost (of face, composure, etc.), to broken down (e.g. of one's courage), to be broken (of one's heart), to be worn down (of a pen nib, saw teeth, etc.), to wear away, to become dull, to get dead drunk
  • 潰える 【ついえる】 to collapse (of a building, dream, plan, etc.), to be destroyed, to fall through, to break down, to be completely defeated (in battle), to be wiped out, to be routed

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kui4, hui4
Korean:
gwe

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2701 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1229 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
919 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
677 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
18281 Morohashi
743 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3335 New Nelson (John Haig)
2319 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1911 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3a12.14 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-12 SKIP code
3518.6 Four corner code
1-36-57 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6f70 Unicode hex code