Meaning & readings
rend, rip, tear, break, destroy, defeat, frustrate
On’yomi ハ
Kun’yomi やぶ.る、やぶ.れる、わ.れる
Origin
This character combines stone (石) on the left, which suggests something hard and solid that can break, with skin (皮) on the right, which serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation. The stone radical, called a "classifying radical," groups related characters together by their general meaning area—in this case, things involving stone or hard objects. The skin component doesn't contribute a meaning about skin or surface; instead it tells you roughly how to pronounce the character. Together, the two parts create a character meaning to break or tear, as if shattering something solid like stone.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 112
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 5 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #590 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+07834