Kanji
N1 14 strokes Grade 8

be rent, ripped, unravel, run, begin to open

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

silk ito

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

failure; collapse
business failure
economic collapse
failed state
economic collapse; financial failure
person with a defective character

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to come apart at the seams; to be ripped
to be ruined; to fail
open seam; seam that has come apart
to begin to open; to come out
to rip up (a seam); to burst
to break into a smile

Example sentences

Because he was unemployed, their wedlock failed.

The nation's finances are bankrupt because of the war.

The buds began to open.

Ask her if she'll sew up the hole in your jeans.