綻

Meaning

綻 centers on a seam or closed thing coming apart: fabric ripping, a plan unraveling, or a tightly held expression breaking into a smile. The common thread is something held together giving way and opening.

• 破綻はたん
  N1

  failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy

• 綻びほころび

  open seam; seam that has come apart; tear

• 綻びるほころびる
  N1

  to come apart at the seams; to be ripped; to be torn

• 財政破綻ざいせいはたん
  N1

  economic collapse

• 性格破綻者せいかくはたんしゃ

  person with a defective character

• 破綻をきたすはたんをきたす

  to be ruined; to fail; to undergo a break-up; to go bankrupt

• 破綻国家はたんこっか

  failed state

• 経営破綻けいえいはたん

  business failure

• 経済破綻けいざいはたん

  economic collapse; financial failure; bankruptcy

• 綻ばすほころばす

  to rip up (a seam); to burst; to tear; to break out (e.g. into a smile)

• 綻ぶほころぶ

  to begin to open; to come out

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