12 strokes

split, rend, tear

Kunさ.く、さ.ける、-ぎ.れ
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Radicals

Common words

  • 破裂はれつ
    bursting, rupture, explosion, breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.), breaking off
  • 引き裂くひきさく
    to tear up, to tear off, to rip up, to tear to pieces, to (forcibly) separate (a couple, family, etc.), to force apart, to tear apart
  • 分裂ぶんれつ
    split, division, break up
  • 亀裂きれつ
    crack, crevice, fissure, chap, rift
  • 裂くさく
    to tear, to rip up, to cut up, to cleave, to cut open (esp. the abdomen), to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers), to spare (time, money, etc.), to use part of something, to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
  • 切り裂くきりさく
    to cut off, to cut up, to tear to pieces
  • 決裂けつれつ
    breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.), breaking off, rupture
  • 裂け目さけめ
    tear, rip, rent, slit, crack, chasm, rift
  • 核分裂かくぶんれつ
    nuclear fission, karyokinesis (division of a cell nucleus during mitosis or meiosis)
  • 四分五裂しぶんごれつ
    torn asunder, disrupted and disorganized
  • 細胞分裂さいぼうぶんれつ
    cell division