Entry
  1. Godan verb with 'bu' ending, Intransitive verb

    to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct; to perish

    see 滅びる

    肉体は滅んでいく。
    The flesh is mortal.

Also written 亡ぶ【ほろぶ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish

Kun
ほろ.びるほろ.ぶほろ.ぼす
On
メツ
Strokes
13
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1222 of 2500
Radical
water
WaniKani
Level 43

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Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
1-3-10SKIP code
3a10.26The Kanji Dictionary
3315.0Four corner code
359deroo
6ec5Unicode hex code
1-44-39JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2660Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3279New Nelson (John Haig)
660New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
812Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
475Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
606Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
365Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
390Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1387A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1228Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
18008Morohashi
1848A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1338Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1421Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1488Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1642Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1500Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1237Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
371Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
mie4Pinyin reading
myeolKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
43WaniKani level