メツ, ほろ.びる, ほろ.ぶ, ほろ.ぼす
destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish

This kanji has 13 strokes: 4 in the "water" radical (みず) and 9 other strokes.

Sample compounds (19) :

  1. ぼす
    ほろぼす
    to destroy, to overthrow, to wreck, to ruin

  2. ふめつ
    (a-no) immortal, undying, indestructible

  3. ぶつめつ
    Buddha's death, unlucky day

  4. ぜんめつ
    annihilation

  5. そうめつ
    (vs) wiping out, annihilation

  6. てんめつ
    switching on and off

  7. かいめつ
    (vs) destruction, annihilation

  8. めった
    (an) (uk) thoughtless, reckless, seldom (neg. verb), careless

  9. げんめつ
    disillusionment
  10. ぼす
    うちほろぼす
    to destroy

  11. げきめつ
    (vs) destruction

  12. せんめつ
    (vs) extermination, annihilation

  13. めっぽう
    extraordinary, absurd, very, in chaos, incoherent

  14. いんめつ
    extinction, destruction

  15. かいめつ
    (vs) destruction, annihilation

  16. はめつ
    (vs) ruin, destruction, fall

  17. じめつ
    (vs) ruining oneself, destroying oneself

  18. めつれつ
    in chaos, incoherent

  19. まめつ
    (vs) defacement, abrasion, wear and tear, crushing of a nerve
Kanji Character : 滅
Kuten Encoding : 4439
SJIS Encoding : 4c47
Unicode Encoding : 6ec5
Old Nelson Index : 2660
Radical Number : 85
Frequency Ranking : 1346
Gakken Index : 1387
Grade Level : 8
Halpern Index : 660
Heisig Index : 365
Henshall Index : 1848
New Nelson Index : 3279
Stroke Count : 13
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary Index : 3a10.26
Spahn & Hadamitzky Radical Strokes : 3
Spahn & Hadamitzky Other Strokes : 10
Spahn & Hadamitzky Character ID : a
Spahn & Hadamitzky kanji Number : 26
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji & Kana Index : 1338
SKIP Code : 1-3-10
De Roo Code : 359
Four Corner Code : 3315.0
Korean reading : myeol
Pinyin reading : mie4
Morohashi Index String : 18008
Morohashi Volume and Page String : 7.0176
Morohashi Index Number : 18008
Morohashi Page : 176
Morohashi Volume : 7
Dictionary Codes
  1. R359
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