Illustration: On a Japanese apartment balcony, a gardener lifts a vegetable leaf riddled with freshly eaten holes. A caterpillar remains at its ragged edge, chewing, while the young plant below has several damaged leaves and one drooping stem.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

害がい

gai

harm, damage

Example sentences

  1. 喫煙きつえんは健康けんこうに害がいがある。

    Smoking is harmful to health.

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  2. 害がいになる薬くすりもある。

    Some medicine does us harm.

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  3. 悪わるい本ほんは害がいを与あたえる。

    Bad books will do you harm.

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Kanji in 害

  • 害harm; injuryOnガイ

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