U+7815 "砕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7815 "砕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese and Japanese character that primarily means "to smash," "to break," or "to crush." It is a variant form of the more common character 碎 (suì), and is used in modern Japanese as a simplified or alternative way to write that concept, often appearing in compound words like 砕石 (saiseki, meaning "crushed stone") or 骨砕 (kokusai, meaning "grueling" or "bone-breaking"). In Japanese, it is pronounced "sai" or "kuda(keru)" and retains the same semantic core of fragmentation or pulverization, while in Chinese, it is less frequently used than its counterpart 碎, but still understood as a synonym for breaking something into pieces.