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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)
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Kun readings
やぶるやぶれるわれる
Words with 破
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —破損クラスタlost cluster
- —非破壊読取りnondestructive read
- —破壊措置命令shoot-down order (e.g. for ballistic missile)
- —ギロチン破断guillotine break (coolant loss in a nuclear power plant); guillotine rupture
- —突破口を開くto make a breakthrough; to break ground
- —破傷風抗毒素tetanus antitoxin
- —オゾン層破壊ozone layer depletion
- —破壊活動防止法Subversive Activities Prevention Act
- —破産を申請するto file for bankruptcy
- —破壊的読み取りdestructive read
- —有声両唇破裂音voiced bilabial plosive; voiced bilabial stop
- —未破裂脳動脈瘤unruptured cerebral aneurysm
- —破傷風トキソイドtetanus toxoid
- —無声そり舌破裂音voiceless retroflex plosive
- —破鏡再び照らさずa broken relationship can never be repaired; a divorced couple are never reconciled; a broken mirror will never shine again
- —弾道ミサイル破壊措置命令ballistic-missile shoot-down order; order to shoot down a ballistic missile
- —落花枝に帰らず破鏡再び照らさずfallen blossom doesn't return to the branch, a broken mirror can not be made to shine; what's done is done; there's no use crying over spilled milk
- —国際連合大量破壊兵器廃棄特別委員会United Nations Special Commission; UNSCOM
- —オクラホマシティ連邦政府ビル爆破事件Oklahoma City bombing (April 19, 1995)
- —破目plight; fix; bind; awkward situation; difficult situation; mess