Kanji
N1 12 strokes Grade 8 freq #1041

split, rend, tear

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

clothes koromo

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

split; division
crack; crevice
breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.); breaking off
bursting; rupture
nuclear fission
torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
cell division

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

tear; rip
to tear up; to tear off
to tear; to rip up
to split; to tear
violent explosion; bursting

Example sentences

Strife is the rock on which the party split.

The country was torn by war.

In severe cases, cracks can form or it can snap apart.

His head was bursting with new ideas.