滅びる (ほろびる): to be ruined, to perish, to be destroyed — Japanese vocabulary
滅びる is read ほろびる and means "to be ruined, to perish, to be destroyed". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.
滅びる
- Reading
- ほろびる · horobiru
- Translation
- to be ruined, to perish, to be destroyed
- Level
- JLPT N1
- Pitch accent
- ほろびるがほろびるが
Example
肉体は滅びるが霊魂は不滅である。
にくたいはほろびるがれいこんはふめつである。
A man's body dies, but his soul is immortal.
Kanji in this word
- 滅 — destroy, perish
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