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 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 石(いしへん)

Meaning

Break / Tear / Shatter / Defeat

  • 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).

まどつよって ガラスが やぶれた。
The glass broke when the window was hit hard.

かれ記録きろく簡単かんたんには やぶれない。
His record won't be easily broken.

産
Creates
破産はさん — bankruptcy
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