break; tear; pierce; split; burst
Rare literary or technical noun meaning the act of breaking, tearing, piercing, splitting, or bursting. Not used in everyday conversation; mostly found in classical texts or specialized compounds.
劈 is a kanji that in classical texts expresses something splitting or tearing.
A Sino-Japanese reading of Chinese 劈, “to split or cleave.” The character has 刀 “knife” as its semantic element and 辟 as its phonetic element.