# 害 — Damage

Frequency rank 292 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 線 (Line), less common than 建 (Build).

- On’yomi: がい
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 宀 Roof (Kangxi 40)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 4
- Strokes: 10

The Roof lets go and drops on the tax man, staving his Rib Cage flat and driving him through the cellar floor onto the drums, and the Mouth in the plaster laps up the bone splinters skidding past it, adding one auditor to the night's Damage.

In words:

- 害 がい — injury,harm,evil influence,damage
- 害する がいする — to injure;to damage;to harm;to kill;to hinder
- 被害 ひがい — damage

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