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
- —破牢breaking out of prison; jailbreak
- —破倫immorality (oft. sexual)
- —小破slight damage
- —破竹breaking bamboo
- —破邪crushing evil; destroying heresy
- —破風gable
- —破屋tumbledown or dilapidated house
- —破船shipwreck
- —破調out of tune; (poetic) broken meter
- —破鏡broken mirror; marital separation; divorce; partially eclipsed moon
- —破魔exorcism
- —破体in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style
- —破断rupture; break; fracture
- —立破establishing and refuting (a doctrine)
- —破婚marriage breakup; divorce; engagement breakup
- —内破implosion
- —歳破Saiha; one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar
- —破題opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines
- —破瓶bottle breakage; broken bottle
- —透破ninja