破

音読おんよみ:

訓読くんよみ: やぶ・やぶれる

画数かくすう: 10

部首ぶしゅ: いしへん(石)

Meaning

Break / Tear / Shatter / Defeat

Conjugation
Tap for 破る (tear; break) Tap for 破れる (tear; be broken)
  • やぶる — to break / to tear
  • やぶれる — to be broken / to be defeated
  • 破壊はかい — destruction
  • 破産はさん — bankruptcy
  • 突破とっぱ — breakthrough
  • 打破だは — defeat / break through
  • 爆破ばくは — explosion / blasting

Left radical 石 (stone) signals hardness/impact; the right part 皮 (skin/surface) provides sound. Together they evoke splitting or breaking—both literal (tearing, shattering) and figurative (defeat, violation, disruption).

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