destruction

Kanji in this word

• 破 rend, smash
• 壊 demolition, break

Example sentences

• その嵐あらしは町まち全体ぜんたいを破壊はかいした。

  Sono arashi wa machi zentai o hakai shita.

  The storm destroyed the whole town.

• 地震じしんが全すべての物ものを破壊はかいした。

  Jishin ga subete no mono o hakai shita.

  The earthquake destroyed everything.

Example sentences from the Tatoeba Project, CC-BY 2.0 FR.

Related words · share a kanji

• 破綻 failure, bankruptcy
• 壊す to break (something)
• 壊れる to break, to be broken
• 崩壊 collapse