Keyword
break
Info
FrequencyTop 500-600
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 4
Heisig427
Old form
Readings
かい
(55%)
こわ
(43%)
Composed of
earth
ten
small net
garment
Used in vocabulary (133 in total)
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
Examples (191 in total)
He was ignorant of the fact that the town had been destroyed.
The town was destroyed during the war.
The city was destroyed in the war.