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害

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 292 / 2,608

Damage

On’yomi
がい
Kun’yomi
—
Radical
宀 Roof (Kangxi 40)
School grade
4
Strokes
10

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

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

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,damageN3
害する がいする to injure;to damage;to harm;to kill;to hinderN1
被害 ひがい damageN3

害 is rank 292 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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