破

Meaning

破 centers on forceful separation: tearing, ripping, or breaking something apart. Its extended senses of destroying, defeating, or frustrating follow naturally from the idea of breaking something down.

• 破壊はかい
  N2

  destruction; disruption

• 破るやぶる
  N4

  to tear; to rip; to break; to destroy

• 突破とっぱ
  N1

  breaking through; breakthrough; penetration

• 爆破ばくは
  N1

  destructive blast; blowing up; explosion

• 破産はさん
  N3

  bankruptcy; insolvency

• 破綻はたん
  N1

  failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy

• 破損はそん
  N1

  damage; breakage

• 破棄はき
  N1

  tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction

• 破れやぶれ

  tear; rip; breach; break; hole; crack; breakdown; collapse

• 破滅はめつ
  N1

  ruin; destruction; fall

• 撃破げきは

  defeating; crushing; smashing; destroying

• 破は

  middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)

• 破裂はれつ
  N1

  bursting; rupture; explosion

• 破片はへん
  N2

  fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard

• 大破たいは

  serious damage; heavy damage; being wrecked

• 論破ろんぱ

  defeating an argument; winning an argument; refutation; confutation

• 破局はきょく
  N1

  catastrophe; cataclysm

• 打破だは

  breaking down; defeating; abolishing

• 破格はかく

  extraordinary; exceptional; unprecedented; special; abnormal; irregular

• 破砕はさい

  crushing (into pieces); smashing; cracking; breaking up

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