Keyword
crush
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 2
Heisig1911
Readings
つぶ
(96%)
つい
(2%)
かい
(1%)
Composed of
water drops
noble
Mnemonic

A noble man is not going to crush your spirit by brute force. He's better than that. He'll just subject you to the Chinese water torture, slowly dripping water drops on your forehead, drop by drop, making you insane.

Used in vocabulary (94 in total)
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
to be crushed; to be smashed; to become useless; to cease functioning; to go bankrupt; to go out of business
to squash; to crush; to flatten
Examples (3 in total)
Some read books to kill time.
Let's play some video games to kill time.
An ulcer forms in the stomach.