瓦礫|がれきgareki[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounrubble; debris; wreckage; tiles and pebbles
   一連いちれんの爆発ばくはつで、その研究けんきゅう施設しせつは瓦礫がれきの山やまと化かした。↗

   A series of blasts reduced the laboratory to ruins.
2. nountrash; rubbish

• Related破片はへんNeutralFragments left when something shatters, e.g. 「ガラスの破片」; 「瓦礫」 is the waste left when a building collapses or is demolished.
• Related砕片さいへんWrittenWritten/formal prose term for broken fragments, used mostly in scientific description and rarely at that; 「瓦礫」 refers to the wreckage of buildings.

Use 「瓦礫」 for the rubble left when a building collapses or is demolished, as in 「瓦礫の山」. For fragments of glass or ceramics, say 「破片」. 「砕片」 is a rare written term for broken fragments, mostly in scientific description.

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1. 工作物こうさくぶつの残骸ざんがいである廃棄物はいきぶつのこと。建物たてもの撤去てっきょのときに出でる、瓦かわらや壁土かべつちなどの他ほかに鉄骨てっこつ、コンクリートなどもある。