EntryCommonJLPT N2WaniKani 47
  1. Godan verb with 'ku' ending, Transitive verb

    to break (into pieces); to smash; to crush; to shatter; to grind (into powder); to pound

    ピックは硬い地表を砕くために用いられる長い取っ手の道具だ。
    A pick is a long handled tool used for breaking up hard ground surfaces.
  2. to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.); to crush; to frustrate

  3. to simplify; to make easy to understand

Also written 摧く【くだく】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

smash, break, crush, familiar, popular

Kun
くだ.くくだ.ける
On
サイ
Strokes
9
Taught
Junior high
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1579 of 2500
Radical
stone
WaniKani
Level 47

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Dictionary and index codes (29)
CodeReference
1-5-4SKIP code
5a4.6The Kanji Dictionary
1464.1Four corner code
3355deroo
7815Unicode hex code
1-26-53JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3179Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3990New Nelson (John Haig)
1134New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1458Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
773Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1048Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
116Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
121Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1695A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1467Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
24080PMorohashi
1287A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1710Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1827Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1568Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1287Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1550Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1400Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
117Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
sui4Pinyin reading
swaeKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
47WaniKani level