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
Radical: 石
Reading: いしへん
Meaning: stone
Strokes: 5
Reading: いしへん
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.]
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.)
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