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全壊 (ぜんかい) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Conjugation Meanings 1
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb
complete destruction ; total collapse
Used for buildings, structures, or objects being completely destroyed, often in disasters. As a suru-verb, it is intransitive: the subject is the thing that is destroyed.
、
その
橋はし
は
全ぜん
壊かい
状じょう
態たい
だっ
た
。
After the typhoon, the bridge was in a state of total collapse.
Written forms 全ぜん 壊かい Usage 97%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common form in news and formal writing.
全ぜん 潰かい Usage 3%
Alternate kanji spelling using 潰 (crush/destroy); less common and may be considered non-standard in some contexts.
Kanji 壊 demolition, break, destroy Similar words 半はん 壊かい 半壊 means 'partial destruction' or 'half-destroyed', contrasting with 全壊's 'complete destruction'.
倒とう 壊かい 倒壊 specifically means 'collapse' or 'falling down', while 全壊 emphasizes the completeness of the destruction.
Etymology Compound of 全 (zen, 'all, complete') and 壊 (kai, 'break, destroy'). The reading ぜんかい is the standard on'yomi combination.
