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Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

590 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 10

Meaning: rend, rip, tear, break, destroy, defeat, frustrate

Kunyomi: やぶ.る, やぶ.れる, わ.れる

Onyomi: ハ

Composition: 石 皮

破

Radical

Radical: 石

Reading: いしへん

Meaning: stone

Strokes: 5

Reading: いしへん

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Examples

Examples with audio

破局(はきょく)   catastrophe, cataclysm

破片(はへん)   fragment, splinter, broken piece

破壊する(はかいする)   destroy, demolish

破棄する(はきする)   revoke, annul, break

破産する(はさんする)   go bankrupt

破滅する(はめつする)   fall into ruin

読破する(どくはする)   finish reading a book

爆破する(ばくはする)   explode, blow up

難波する(なんぱする)   be wrecked (ship)

突破する(とっぱする)   break through

破る(やぶる)   tear, violate, defeat [v.t.]

破れる(やぶれる)   wear out, get torn [v.i.]

Onyomi Examples

破 (ハ) middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)

破壊 (ハカイ) destruction, disruption, (application) crash

大破 (タイハ) serious damage, heavy damage, being wrecked, thrashing (an opponent), crushing, giving a drubbing

踏破 (トウハ) travelling (a long and difficult journey) on foot, walking (all the way) across, travelling through, hiking across, traversing, travelling all over (e.g. a country), visiting all the major locations (of a region, etc.)

Kunyomi Examples

破る (やぶる) to tear, to rip, to break, to destroy, to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.), to breach, to defeat, to beat, to break (e.g. silence), to disturb (e.g. peace), to shatter (e.g. dream), to disrupt, to spoil, to violate (e.g. rule), to break (e.g. promise), to infringe, to break (a record)

破れる (やぶれる) to get torn, to tear, to rip, to break, to wear out, to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.), to break down, to collapse, to fall into ruin

割れる (われる) to break, to be smashed, to split, to crack, to fissure, to be torn, to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.), to split (e.g. of a party), to come to light, to become clear, to be identified, to be revealed, to become distorted (of sound), to clip, to be divisible (without a remainder), to drop below a minimum

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