日本語道場

Nihongo Dojo — N3 → N2

Kanji

N2

Meaningsdemolition, break, destroy
On'yomiカイ、エ
Kun'yomiこわ、こわ、やぶ
Strokes16
Radical

Compounds

  • to break, to destroy, to demolish, to wreck

  • to be broken, to break, to fall apart, to collapse

Example sentences

  • Let's break stereotypes!

  • The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.

  • The shell of an egg is easily broken.

  • My father fixed a broken chair.

  • Bicycles are tools for urban sustainability.

  • Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.

  • Repairing a broken radio I realise over again that I don't have an understanding of the operating principles of circuitry.

  • I heard something crashing in the kitchen in the middle of the night.