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The kanji 滅: meaning, readings and stroke order
滅
- Meaning
- perish, destroy
- On reading
- メツ metsu
- Kun reading
- ほろ（びる） horobiru、ほろ（ぼす） horobosu
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 水 water
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- diệt vong, mất đi (diệt)
- Japanese
- ほろびる。なくなる。
- Korean
- 멸망하다, 없애다 (멸)
- Chinese
- 灭亡、消灭 (灭)
Readings, words and example sentences
メツ metsu · on reading · less common
全滅
total loss, being wiped out
作物が 全滅しました。
All the crops were ruined.
ほろ（びる） horobiru · kun reading · less common
滅びる
to fall, to die out
その 国は 滅びました。
That country fell and was gone.
ほろ（ぼす） horobosu · kun reading · less common
滅ぼす
to destroy, to ruin
自分の 体を 滅ぼしては いけません。
You must not ruin your own body.
Practise writing 滅 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 滅 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 8 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.