破
break, defeat, destroy, frustrate, rend, rip, tear
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Stroke Order
10 / 10
Information
Grade:5
Strokes:10
JLPT:3
Frequency:590
Vocabulary
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| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 打破 | ダハ | breaking down; defeating; abolishing |
| 破壊 | ハカイ | destruction; disruption; (application) crash |
| 破格 | ハカク | extraordinary; exceptional; unprecedented; special; abnormal; irregular; solecistic; non-standard; irregular |
| 破棄 | ハキ | tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction; annulment; cancellation; abrogation; voiding; breaking (e.g. a treaty); reversal (of an original ruling on appeal); quashing |
| 破局 | ハキョク | catastrophe; cataclysm; collapse (of a relationship); breakup; split (friends, lovers, etc.) |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破目 | はめ | panel; wainscoting; wainscotting; plight; fix; bind; awkward situation; difficult situation; mess |
| 破る | わる | to divide; to cut; to halve; to separate; to split; to rip; to break; to crack; to smash; to dilute; to fall below; to discount; to step over (a line, etc.) |
| 破れる | われる | to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to fissure; to be torn; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light; to become clear; to be identified; to be revealed; to become distorted (of sound); to clip; to be divisible (without a remainder); to drop below a minimum |
| 打破 | たは | breaking down; defeating; abolishing |
| 突破 | とっぱ | breaking through; breakthrough; penetration; surmounting (a difficulty); overcoming; getting over; accomplishing (an aim); reaching (a goal); exceeding; passing; rising above |
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be exposed (film), brood over, cover, incur, put on, receiving, shelter, veil, wear
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break, crush, familiar, popular, smash
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expose, open
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cause, circumstances, consequently, especially, happenstance, intentionally, reason, the late, therefore
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設
establishment, prepare, provision
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