Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
Variants:
smash, break, crush, familiar, popular
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1579 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 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】 honorable death, death without surrender, honorable defeat, trying but being utterly beaten, being completely rejected when professing one's love

Kun reading compounds

  • 砕く 【くだく】 to break (into pieces), to smash, to crush, to shatter, to grind (into powder), to pound, to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.), to crush, to frustrate, to simplify, to make easy to understand
  • 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

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sui4
Korean:
swae

Spanish

  • destrozar
  • romper
  • aplastar
  • despedazar

Portuguese

  • quebrar
  • quebrado
  • esmagar
  • popular
  • familiar

French

  • fracasser
  • casser
  • briser
  • familier (informel)
  • populaire
1287 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1695 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3179 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1467 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1568 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1710 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1827 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1550 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1400 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1458 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
773 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1048 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
117 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24080P Morohashi
1134 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3990 New Nelson (John Haig)
116 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
121 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1287 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3355 2001 Kanji
5a4.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-4 SKIP code
1464.1 Four corner code
1-26-53 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7815 Unicode hex code

10 strokes
Radical:
corpse
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 砕屑 【サイセツ】 clastic
  • 落屑 【ラクセツ】 desquamation, skin peeling

Kun reading compounds

  • 屑 【くず】 waste, scrap, garbage, dregs, scum, piece of trash, loser
  • 屑穴子 【くずあなご】 duck-billed eel (Nettastoma parviceps)
  • 野菜くず 【やさいくず】 vegetable scraps
  • 大鋸屑 【おがくず】 sawdust

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xie4
Korean:
seol

Spanish

  • basura
  • desechos
  • chatarra
  • pedazos

Portuguese

French

1395 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3861 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2680 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
7709X Morohashi
1424 New Nelson (John Haig)
2219 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2330 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3r7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
7722.7 Four corner code
1-22-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c51 Unicode hex code

5 strokes
Radical:
one
Parts:
Variants:
hill, knoll
Kun:
おか
On:
キュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1405 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 丘陵 【キュウリョウ】 hill, hillock, rolling hills, foothills
  • 丘疹 【キュウシン】 pimple, papule
  • 墳丘 【フンキュウ】 tumulus, grave mound
  • 砂丘 【サキュウ】 sand dune, sand hill

Kun reading compounds

  • 丘 【おか】 hill, height, knoll, rising ground, bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
  • 岡辺 【おかべ】 vicinity of a hill
  • 小高い丘 【こだかいおか】 small hill, low hill, hillock
  • 嵐が丘 【あらしがおか】 Wuthering Heights (novel by Emily Bronte)

Readings

Japanese names:
たかし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qiu1
Korean:
gu

Spanish

  • colina

Portuguese

  • morro
  • colina

French

  • colline
  • butte
1149 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1169 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
174 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1689 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1026 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
219 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1357 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1441 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1202 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
12 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4307 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2177 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2931 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1341 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
33 Morohashi
3495 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
19 New Nelson (John Haig)
1329 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1427 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1035 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2673 2001 Kanji
0a5.12 The Kanji Dictionary
4-5-2 SKIP code
7210.1 Four corner code
1-21-54 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4e18 Unicode hex code