Meanings
- destroy
- ruin
- overthrow
- perish
Strokes13
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1222 of 2,500
Kanji N1
滅: destroy, ruin, overthrow
滅 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning destroy, ruin, overthrow, written with 13 strokes. It is read メツ (on) and ほろびる, ほろぶ, ほろぼす (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 絶滅 (ぜつめつ, extinction) and 滅亡 (めつぼう, downfall).
滅
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- メツ
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- ほろびる
- ほろぶ
- ほろぼす
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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Common words with 滅
The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.
- JLPT N3
- JLPT N1
- JLPT N3
- JLPT N2
- 滅びるほろびるJLPT N1
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall
- JLPT N1
- 滅ぼすほろぼすJLPT N1
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.