Today’s #kanji is 破, which is listed under its semantic element of #いしへん（いし）. The phonetic element is 皮 although 破 and 皮 don’t share a sound in Japanese.
Meaning: to tear, to break, to defeat
Reading: ハ、やぶ
破壊（ハカイ）する: to destroy, to break up, to shatter, to ruin
破棄（ハキ）する: 1. to tear … to pieces and throw it away, to destroy; 2. to annul (a decision), to cancel (a contract), to reverse (a sentence)
破局（ハキョク）: a collapse, a catastrophe, a cataclysm
破産（ハサン）: insolvency, bankruptcy
破損（ハソン）: damage, harm, breakage, breakdown
破門（ハモン）: (religious) excommunication, expulsion (of a pupil)
打破（ダハ）する: to break down (evil customs), to eradicate (abuses), to conquer (a habit), etc.
爆破（バクハ）する: to blast, to blow up, to explode
破（やぶ）く: to tear to rip
破（やぶ）る: 1. to tear, to rip; 2. to break, to crush, to destroy; 3. to violate, to breach; 4. to beat, to defeat
ドアを破る: to force a door open
静けさを破る: to break the silence
記録を破る: to break the record, to better the record
約束を破る: to break one’s promise
宿敵を破る: to beat an archi-rival
- いしへん
