Meaning & readings
rend, rip, tear, break, destroy, defeat, frustrate
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.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 112
- Grade
- Grade 5 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #590 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+07834