Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1222 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 滅亡 【メツボウ】 downfall, ruin, collapse, destruction
  • 滅罪 【メツザイ】 expiation
  • 隠滅 【インメツ】 destruction (esp. of evidence), spoliation, suppression, hiding, concealment
  • 衰滅 【スイメツ】 decline, downfall, ruin(ation)

Kun reading compounds

  • 滅びる 【ほろびる】 to go to ruin, to go under, to fall, to be destroyed, to die out, to become extinct, to perish
  • 滅ぶ 【ほろぶ】 to be ruined, to go under, to perish, to be destroyed
  • 滅ぼす 【ほろぼす】 to destroy, to overthrow, to wreck, to ruin

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mie4
Korean:
myeol

Spanish

  • extinguirse
  • apagarse
  • estropearse
  • ser destruido
  • ser devastado
  • estropear
  • destruir
  • devastar
  • demoler

Portuguese

  • destruir
  • arruinar
  • extinguir
  • golpe

French

  • anéantir
  • détruire
  • ruiner
  • renverser
  • périr
1848 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1387 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2660 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1228 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1488 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1338 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1421 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1500 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1237 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
812 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
475 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
606 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
371 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18008 Morohashi
660 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3279 New Nelson (John Haig)
365 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
390 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1642 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
359 2001 Kanji
3a10.26 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
3315.0 Four corner code
1-44-39 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6ec5 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
truth, clarity, abandon, give up
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2457 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 諦観 【テイカン】 clear insight, resignation (to one's fate), acceptance
  • 諦念 【テイネン】 understanding and acceptance, spiritual awakening, a heart that understands truth, (feeling of) resignation
  • 妙諦 【ミョウテイ】 amazing truth, cardinal principle, key (to understanding)
  • 要諦 【ヨウテイ】 important point
  • 諦 【タイ】 satya, truth
  • 空諦 【クウタイ】 truth of emptiness (holding that all things are void)
  • 道諦 【ドウタイ】 truth of the way to the cessation of suffering

Kun reading compounds

  • 諦める 【あきらめる】 to give up, to abandon (hope, plans), to resign oneself (to)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
di4
Korean:
che

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4407 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2516 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1238 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2010 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1444 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
35716 Morohashi
5663 New Nelson (John Haig)
2716 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
467 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
7a9.16 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-9 SKIP code
0062.7 Four corner code
1-36-92 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ae6 Unicode hex code