裂
rip; split; rend; tear
12 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 1041.
Readings
- レツ (on reading): 分裂 (ぶんれつ) split; 破裂 (はれつ) bursting
- さく (kun reading): 引き裂く (ひきさく) to tear up; 裂く (さく) to tear
- さける (kun reading): 裂ける (さける) to split; 裂け目 (さけめ) tear
- ぎれ (kun reading): 古代裂れ (こだいぎれ) ancient cloth fragment; 縁裂れ (ふちぎれ) border strip
Components
- 列
- 衣
- 亠 radical lid
- ⺉ radical knife, right-side form of 刀
- 歹 radical death; bare bone
- 衣 radical clothes
Words using 裂
- 分裂 (ぶんれつ) split
- 破裂 (はれつ) bursting
- 断裂 (だんれつ) snapping apart
- 亀裂 (きれつ) crack
- 決裂 (けつれつ) breakdown (of talks, negotiations, etc.)
- 引き裂く (ひきさく) to tear up
- 裂く (さく) to tear
- 切り裂く (きりさく) to cut up
- 切り裂きジャック (きりさきジャック) Jack the Ripper
- 八つ裂き (やつざき) tearing limb from limb
- 裂ける (さける) to split
- 裂け目 (さけめ) tear
- 張り裂ける (はりさける) to burst (open)
- 口が裂けても言えない (くちがさけてもいえない) (I) won't say anything no matter what
- 口が裂けても (くちがさけても) (not saying anything) no matter what
- 古代裂れ (こだいぎれ) ancient cloth fragment
- 縁裂れ (ふちぎれ) border strip
- 裂地 (きれじ) fabric
117 words in all.