砕
Readings
                Kana: 
                サイ、くだ.く、くだ.ける
            
                    
                Romaji: 
                sai, kuda.ku, kuda.keru
            
            Meanings
        smash, break, crush, familiar, popular
    
Stroke Diagram
Kanji Info
            Stroke Count: 
            9
        
        
            Radical Number: 
            112
        
        
            Frequency: 
            1579
        
        
            Grade: 
            8
        
        
            Skip Pattern: 
            1-5-4
        
                    
                Korean Reading: 
                swae
            
                            
                Chinese Reading: 
                sui4
            
                
            Unicode: 
            7815
        
        
            JIS: 
            3A55
        
    Indexes
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                                                Nelson Index: 3179
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                                                                Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 5a4.6
                                                                Four Corner Index: 1464.1
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                                                                French Remembering the Kanji Index: 117
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                                                                Roo 2001 Kanji Index: 3355
                                                                                            Tuttle Kanji Cards Index: 1287
                                    Words
            
                粉砕
            
            
                (ふんさい)
            
        
        
            pulverization; pulverisation; smashing; demolishing
        
    
            
                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
        
    
            
                玉砕
            
            
                (ぎょくさい)
            
        
        
            honourable defeat; honorable defeat; honourable death; honorable death; death without surrender; trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love
        
    
            
                火砕流
            
            
                (かさいりゅう)
            
        
        
            pyroclastic flow (type of volcanic eruption); stone wind
        
    
            
                砕石
            
            
                (さいせき)
            
        
        
            broken stone; rubble