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
- —難破shipwreck
- —破瓜age 16 (of a girl); pubescence; puberty; age 64 (of a man); breaking of the hymen (during sex); female defloration; deflowering
- —破戒breaking a commandment (usually religious); offense against the Buddhist commandments (offence)
- —破算starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off; clearing an abacus
- —破水water breaking (during pregnancy)
- —破線broken line; dashed line
- —破門expulsion (of a pupil); excommunication; anathema
- —破約breaking (an agreement, promise); cancellation (of a contract)
- —発破explosive blast (in construction, mining, etc.); blasting
- —論破defeating an argument; winning an argument; refutation; confutation
- —破砕crushing (into pieces); smashing; cracking; breaking up
- —描破depicting thoroughly
- —連破winning successively; defeating one's enemy in succession
- —翔破completing a flight
- —走破running the whole distance
- —踏破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.)
- —道破declaration
- —破談breaking off (an engagement, negotiations, etc.); cancellation
- —破顔giving a broad smile
- —破獄breaking out of prison