Kanji List

滅

• kun: ほろ.びる, ほろ.ぶ, ほろ.ぼす
• on: メツ
• meaning: destroy, ruin, overthrow, perish
• words:

  Word	Reading	Meaning
  絶滅	ぜつめつ	destruction, extinction
  消滅	しょうめつ	lapse, annihilation (physics); extinguishment, termination (e.g. of legal representation)
  壊滅	かいめつ	destruction, annihilation, devastation, catastrophe
  撲滅	ぼくめつ	extermination
  隠滅	いんめつ	destruction, suppression
  破滅	はめつ	ruin, destruction, fall
  自滅	じめつ	ruining oneself, destroying oneself
  滅亡	めつぼう	downfall, ruin, collapse, destruction
  滅びる	ほろびる	to be ruined, to go under, to perish, to be destroyed
  不滅	ふめつ	immortal, undying, indestructible