Kanji
N3 10 strokes Grade 5 freq #590

rend, rip, tear, break, destroy

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

stone ishi

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

destruction; disruption
breaking through; breakthrough
bankruptcy; insolvency
destructive blast; blowing up
fragment; broken piece
breaking down; defeating
bursting; rupture
catastrophe; cataclysm
ruin; destruction
damage; breakage

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to tear; to rip
starting afresh; going back to square one
unusual; unconventional
to break; to smash
to see through (a plot, lie, etc.); to penetrate into

Example sentences

Much of London was destroyed in the seventeenth century.

The storm destroyed the whole town.

Our army broke through the enemy defenses.

We broke through the enemy lines.