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Kanji Detail for 裂 - "to tear, to split"

裂

  • Meaning

    裂 means "to tear, to split." Also associated with cloth.

    1. Tear - To rip apart.

    2. Split - To divide into parts.

    3. Cloth - A piece of fabric.

  • Words using 裂

    • 分裂 ぶんれつ Listen split; division; break up
    • 亀裂 きれつ Listen crack; crevice; fissure
    • 決裂 けつれつ Listen breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.); breaking off; rupture
    • 破裂 はれつ Listen bursting; rupture; explosion
    • 核分裂 かくぶんれつ Listen nuclear fission; karyokinesis (division of a cell nucleus during mitosis or meiosis)
    • 炸裂 さくれつ Listen violent explosion; bursting
    • 裂く さく Listen to tear; to rip up; to cut up
    • 裂ける さける Listen to split; to tear; to burst

  • Four-character idioms with 裂

    • 四分五裂 しぶんごれつ Listen torn asunder; disrupted and disorganized
    • 支離滅裂 しりめつれつ Listen incoherent; inconsistent; illogical

  • Tattoo check: 裂

    • Verified meaning: to tear, to split
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: cloth

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    split; rend; tear

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    split, crack, break open; rend

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to split; to crack; to break open; to rend

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to split, to rend; crevice, crack

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To split apart. Such as 裂帛 (tearing silk), 車裂 (quartering by chariots). Failure of affairs is also called 決裂 (rupture).

  • Onyomi

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    retsu(レツ) レツ

  • Kunyomi

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    gi.re(ぎ-れ) ぎ-れ

    sa.keru(さ-ける) さ-ける

    sa.ku(さ-く) さ-く

  • Strokes

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    12 strokes

  • Radical

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    衣 衤 (koromo・koromohen)

  • Related Keywords

    to tear to split cloth punishment rip break crack cleave fissure fracture rend sever shatter

Sentences including 裂

  • The country was torn by war.

  • I will never tell !

  • She tore up the letter.

  • Her dress was torn.

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