EntryCommon
  1. Godan verb with 'mu' ending, Transitive verb, Intransitive verb

    to be worm-eaten; to be eaten by worms

    彼の名誉は貪欲によってむしばまれた。
    His honor was corroded by greed.
  2. to affect adversely; to spoil; to ruin; to undermine; to gnaw at (one's heart, body, etc.); to eat into; to destroy

Also written 虫食む【むしばむ】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

eclipse, occultation, be defective

Kun
むしば.む
On
ショク
Strokes
14
Radical
insect

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
1-8-6SKIP code
8b6.1The Kanji Dictionary
8573.6Four corner code
8755Unicode hex code
1-31-10JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5165Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
5333New Nelson (John Haig)
1796New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2258Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2800Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2816Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
33264XMorohashi
shi2Pinyin reading
sigKorean reading