Entry
  1. Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verb

    to eat up and spoil (e.g. crops); to eat away; to devour; to wolf down

    虫に食い荒らされて桃は中空になっていた。
    The insect ate the peach hollow.
  2. to eat a bit of everything

  3. to encroach upon; to take over; to steal (e.g. support)

Also written 食い荒す【くいあらす】食荒らす【くいあらす】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

eat, food

Kun
く.うく.らうた.べるは.む
On
ショクジキ
Strokes
9
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N5
Frequency
328 of 2500
Radical
eat
WaniKani
Level 6

Built from

Used in names as

ぐい

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-2-7SKIP code
8b0.1The Kanji Dictionary
8073.2Four corner code
2865deroo
98dfUnicode hex code
1-31-09JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5154Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6674New Nelson (John Haig)
2075New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2578Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1316Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1787Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1472Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1582Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
269A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1159Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
283Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
44014Morohashi
146A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
322Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
322Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
253sakade
99Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
163henshall3
180Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
207crowley
131Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.13busy_people
1900Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1484Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
shi2, si4Pinyin reading
sig, saKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
6WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

laid waste, rough, rude, wild

Kun
あ.らすあ.れるあら.いすさ.ぶすさ.むあ.らし
On
コウ
Strokes
9
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1099 of 2500
Radical
grass
WaniKani
Level 42

Built from

Used in names as

Dictionary and index codes (30)
CodeReference
2-3-6SKIP code
3k6.18The Kanji Dictionary
4421.1Four corner code
1957deroo
8352Unicode hex code
1-25-51JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3941Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5034New Nelson (John Haig)
2260New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2810Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1447Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1950Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
488Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
527Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
901A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
935Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1028Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
30953PMorohashi
1253A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1377Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1464Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
866Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1291Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1666Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
651Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
499Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
huang1Pinyin reading
hwangKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
42WaniKani level