潰 – Kanji details

Keyword

crush

Info

Frequency	Top 900-1000
Type	Jōyō ?
Kanken	Level 2
Heisig	1911
Readings	つぶ (96%) つい (2%) かい (1%)
	つぶしか

Composed of

氵

water drops

貴

noble

Mnemonic

A noble man is not going to crush your spirit by brute force. He's better than that. He'll just subject you to the Chinese water torture, slowly dripping water drops on your forehead, drop by drop, making you insane.

Used in vocabulary (106 in total)

潰つぶす

to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

潰つぶれる

to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)

押おし潰つぶす

to crush; to squash; to flatten; to quash (a plan, opposition, etc.); to crush; to suppress

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Examples (27 in total)

このままここで時じ間かん潰つぶそう。

Let's just kill time here like this.

その時じ間かんの潰つぶし方かたは色いろ々いろだ。

There are various ways to kill that time.

僕ぼくたちは、この学がっ校こうを潰つぶさせたりはしない。

We won't let them shut this school down.

僕ぼくはお店みせを潰つぶそうとなんてしてないんだよ。

I'm not trying to put the shop out of business.

夏なつなのに、ただ何なにもしないで時じ間かんだけを潰つぶす。

Even though it is summer, I do nothing and just kill time.

それを両りょう手てで挟はさんでとりあえず潰つぶしておいた。

For the time being, I squashed it between my hands.

潰つぶしても潰つぶしてもいつの間まにか湧わいてくる。

No matter how many I squash, they keep breeding before I know it.

会かい社しゃが潰つぶれてもいいのか！

Are you okay with the company going bankrupt?!

工こう場じょうは潰つぶれないんでしょ？

The factory isn't going to shut down, is it?

緊きん張ちょうで心こころが潰つぶれそうだ。

My heart feels like it is about to be crushed by the tension.

指ゆびで潰つぶすと破は片へんは簡かん単たんに崩くずれた。

When crushed with a finger, the fragments easily crumbled.

向むこうが潰つぶしにかかってくるなら上じょう等とうだよ。

If they're going to try to crush us, then bring it on.

その言こと葉ばが持もつ重おもみに、いつも潰つぶれそうになる。

I always feel like I'm about to be crushed by the weight of those words.

加か工こうしやすいが、同どう時じに潰つぶれやすい。

It is easy to process, but at the same time, it is easily crushed.

父ちちは事じ業ぎょうに失しっ敗ぱいして会かい社しゃを潰つぶした。

My father failed in business and ran his company into the ground.

思おもっていたほど強きょう度どはないようで、あっさりと潰つぶれてしまった。

It didn't seem to be as strong as I had thought, and it was easily crushed.

午ご前ぜん中ちゅうは撮さつ影えいで潰つぶれ、編へん集しゅうは夜よるまでかかる。

The morning will be taken up by filming, and editing will go on until night.

昔むかしは家いえで鶏にわとりを潰つぶして食たべていた。

In the old days, people slaughtered chickens at home and ate them.

お祝いわいのために豚ぶたを一いっ頭とう潰つぶした。

We slaughtered a pig for the celebration.

バッグの中なかでバナナがぐちゃぐちゃに潰つぶれていた。

The banana had been squashed to mush in my bag.

会かい社しゃが潰つぶれたのは経けい営えい者しゃの責せき任にん。

The company going under is the management's fault.

祖そ父ふは正しょう月がつに鶏にわとりを一いち羽わ潰つぶした。

My grandfather slaughtered a chicken for New Year's.

空あき缶かんを潰つぶしてから捨すてる。

I crush empty cans before throwing them away.

不ふ況きょうで、町まちの店みせがバタバタと潰つぶれた。

In the recession, the town's shops went under one after another.

ある者ものは暇ひま潰つぶしに本ほんを読よむ。

Some read books to kill time.

暇ひま潰つぶしにテレビゲームをしよう。

Let's play some video games to kill time.

胃いに潰かい瘍ようが出で来きる。