KAI |
That KITE-eating tree broke my KITE! |
The cloth fell from the UFO and broke when it hit the earth. |
( を ) こわ*す |
I smash something , I break something.
★★★☆☆ |
( が ) こわ*れる |
something doesn't work anymore: your TV, your PSP, your dishwasher. Call the repair-person!
★★★☆☆ |
壊れ物 |
fragile thing
★★★☆☆
|
崩壊 |
collapse
★☆☆☆☆
a collapse- said of a building, but also (figuratively) like 'The collapse of communism.' |
破壊 |
Destruction.
★☆☆☆☆
Destruction. Ususaly used about bombs, or 'President Bush destroyed the economy,'. . . pretty much the same circumstances you'd use the English word. (BOOBOO: you can't use する with this one, for some reason. It's one of those nouns you can't verb) |
Meaning | Hint | Radical | |
---|---|---|---|
聴 | listen to | EAR | 耳 |
壊 | break | GROUND | 土 |
懐 | nostalgia | HEART | 心 |
徳 | virtue | GO | 行 |
You listen with your EARS.
You break a TV on the hard GROUND.
You are nostalgic with your HEART.
You GO along the path of virtue.