Kanji1 / 10
破 kanji
rend, rip, tear, break, destroy, defeat, frustrate
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ハ
Kun readings
やぶるやぶれるわれる
Words with 破
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N3破産Popularbankruptcy; insolvency
- N2破片Popularfragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
- N1突破Popularbreaking through; breakthrough; penetration; surmounting (a difficulty); overcoming; getting over; accomplishing (an aim); reaching (a goal); exceeding; passing; rising above
- N1破壊Populardestruction; disruption; (application) crash
- N1破棄Populartearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction; annulment; cancellation; abrogation; voiding; breaking (e.g. a treaty); reversal (of an original ruling on appeal); quashing
- N1破損Populardamage; breakage
- N1破裂Popularbursting; rupture; explosion; breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.); breaking off
- N1爆破Populardestructive blast; blowing up; explosion
- —喝破Populararguing (someone) down; loudly scolding; rebuking; proclaiming (the truth); expounding
- —打破Popularbreaking down; defeating; abolishing
- —破格Popularextraordinary; exceptional; unprecedented; special; abnormal; irregular; solecistic; non-standard; irregular
- —破局Popularcatastrophe; cataclysm; collapse (of a relationship); breakup; split (friends, lovers, etc.)
- —破綻Popularfailure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy; tear (in clothing, etc.); rip; split
- —破滅Popularruin; destruction; fall
- —大破Popularserious damage; heavy damage; being wrecked; thrashing (an opponent); crushing; giving a drubbing
- —破middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)
- —看破seeing through (e.g. someone's lies); reading (e.g. thoughts); penetrating; detecting
- —撃破defeating; crushing; smashing; destroying
- —中破medium damage; modest damage; some damage
- —読破reading through (a book); finishing (a book)