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
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Kun readings
やぶるやぶれるわれる
Words with 破
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —森林破壊deforestation
- —脊椎破壊spina bifida
- —破産会社bankrupt company
- —爆破予告bomb warning
- —破顔大笑breaking into a hearty laugh
- —旧弊打破breaking down antiquated notions; abandoning old-time ways; correcting long-standing abuses
- —強行突破force (bulldoze) one's way through
- —現状打破abandonment of the status quo; destroying the status quo; overthrowing the present situation
- —詩的破格poetic license
- —破壊工作sabotage; subversive activities
- —破壊分子subversive; subversive element
- —破綻国家failed state
- —破廉恥漢shameless man; knave
- —価格破壊sudden, wide-spread drop in prices
- —婚約破棄breaking off an engagement
- —破傷風菌Clostridium tetani (tetanus bacillus)
- —破壊加算destructive addition
- —非破壊的non-destructive
- —破骨細胞osteoclast
- —経済破綻economic collapse; financial failure; bankruptcy