Jisho

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10 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
rend, rip, tear, break, destroy, defeat, frustrate
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N3
590 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 破 【ハ】 middle section of a song (in gagaku or noh)
  • 破壊 【ハカイ】 destruction, disruption, (application) crash
  • 大破 【タイハ】 serious damage, heavy damage, being wrecked, thrashing (an opponent), crushing, giving a drubbing
  • 踏破 【トウハ】 travelling (a long and difficult journey) on foot, walking (all the way) across, travelling through, hiking across, traversing, travelling all over (e.g. a country), visiting all the major locations (of a region, etc.)

Kun reading compounds

  • 破る 【やぶる】 to tear, to rip, to break, to destroy, to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.), to breach, to defeat, to beat, to break (e.g. silence), to disturb (e.g. peace), to shatter (e.g. dream), to disrupt, to spoil, to violate (e.g. rule), to break (e.g. promise), to infringe, to break (a record)
  • 破れる 【やぶれる】 to get torn, to tear, to rip, to break, to wear out, to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.), to break down, to collapse, to fall into ruin
  • 割れる 【われる】 to break, to be smashed, to split, to crack, to fissure, to be torn, to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.), to split (e.g. of a party), to come to light, to become clear, to be identified, to be revealed, to become distorted (of sound), to clip, to be divisible (without a remainder), to drop below a minimum

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
po4
Korean:
pa

Spanish

  • dañar
  • romper
  • rasgar
  • derrotar
  • completar
  • especial
  • desgarrar
  • desgarrarse
  • desgastarse

Portuguese

  • arrancar
  • rasgar
  • lágrima
  • quebrar
  • destruir
  • derrotar
  • frustrar

French

  • déchirer
  • casser
  • détruire
  • défaire
  • frustrer
692 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
788 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
767 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
634 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3186 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
645 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
765 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1113 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
665 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
676 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1037 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1401 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1478 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
784 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1064 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
814 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24124 Morohashi
1150 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3999 New Nelson (John Haig)
806 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
869 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
427 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
719 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3367 2001 Kanji
5a5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-5 SKIP code
1464.7 Four corner code
1-39-43 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7834 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
speech 言 (訁)
Parts:
discuss, talk
On:
ダン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
272 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 談 【ダン】 talk, story, conversation
  • 談合 【ダンゴウ】 bid rigging, collusion (on contract bidding), (illegal) price-fixing agreement, consultation, discussion, conference
  • 示談 【ジダン】 settlement out of court, private settlement
  • 講談 【コウダン】 storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery, story

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
tan2
Korean:
dam

Spanish

  • conversar
  • hablar

Portuguese

  • discutir
  • conversar

French

  • discuter
  • parler
467 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
363 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
543 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
303 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4388 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
378 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
907 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2325 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
593 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
603 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
390 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1698 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1975 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1053 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1419 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
356 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
35633 Morohashi
1569 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5643 New Nelson (John Haig)
350 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
374 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
394 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
433 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3062 2001 Kanji
7a8.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-8 SKIP code
0968.9 Four corner code
1-35-44 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8ac7 Unicode hex code