砕

Meaning

砕 centers on breaking something into pieces: smashing, crushing, or shattering. The extended sense of 'familiar' or 'popular' comes from the idea of breaking down formality or barriers, making something approachable.

• 粉砕ふんさい

  pulverization; pulverisation

• 砕くくだく
  N2

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

• 砕けるくだける
  N2

  to break (into pieces); to be broken; to be smashed

• 玉砕ぎょくさい

  honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat

• 破砕はさい

  crushing (into pieces); smashing; cracking; breaking up

• 火砕流かさいりゅう

  pyroclastic flow

• 打ち砕くうちくだく

  to smash; to break (into pieces); to shatter; to crush

• 砕石さいせき

  crushed stone; macadam

• 腰砕けこしくだけ

  collapsing in the middle of a bout

• 砕氷さいひょう

  ice breaking

• 噛み砕くかみくだく

  to crunch; to masticate

• 爆砕ばくさい

  blasting

• 粉骨砕身ふんこつさいしん

  making one's best exertions

• 心を砕くこころをくだく
  N1

  to take great pains; to make every effort; to rack one's brains

• コーヒー粉砕機コーヒーふんさいき

  coffee grinder; coffee mill

• 圧砕あっさい

  crushing

• 圧砕機あっさいき

  grinder; crusher

• 大火砕流だいかさいりゅう

  large pyroclastic flow

• 当たって砕けろあたってくだけろ

  take a chance; go for broke; nothing ventured, nothing gained

• 摩砕機まさつき

  mill; grinding mill

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