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裂

JLPT N1 12 strokes Frequency: #1041

Meanings

Split, Rend, Tear

Radicals

衣

Decomposition

⿱列衣

Etymology

Pictophonetic: cloth

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 diagonal right-to-left

3 corner top-right-to-bottom-left

4 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

5 vertical right-to-left

6 hook right-to-left

7 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

9 diagonal bottom-to-top

10 corner bottom-to-top

11 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

12 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

レツ retsu

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

さ sa

Words Using This Kanji

97 words total

Other (20 words)

to tear

乾裂かんれつ

cracks in drying lumber

亀裂きれつ

crack

決裂けつれつ

breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.)

四分五裂しぶんごれつ

torn asunder

支離滅裂しりめつれつ

incoherent

精神分裂症せいしんぶんれつしょう

schizophrenia

切り裂くきりさく

to cut off

切り細裂くきりこまざく

to cut up small

張り裂けるはりさける

to burst (open)

破裂はれつ

bursting

破裂音はれつおん

plosive sound

爆裂ばくれつ

exploding

八つ裂きやつざき

tearing limb from limb

分裂性ぶんれつせい

fissionable

分裂物質ぶんれつぶっしつ

fissionable materials

分裂ぶんれつ

split

滅裂めつれつ

in chaos

裂け目さけめ

tear

核分裂かくぶんれつ

nuclear fission

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