破

driving characteristics; road handling ability

partitioned lidded wooden lunchbox

food served in such a box

implosion

(ceremonial) bow used to drive off evil; toy bow and arrow

Abbreviation; Law

Subversive Activities Prevention Act

crusher

karahafu; bow-shaped eaves of a gabled roof; undulating gable; cusped gable

broken umbrella; torn umbrella

Word usually written using kana alone

shredded umbrella plant (Syneilesis palmata)

starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off

Orig. meaning

clearing an abacus

cracked pot

rate of destruction; destruction ratio

Saiha; one of the eight gods of the traditional calendar

depicting thoroughly

disappointed love; broken heart; unrequited love; being lovelorn

escaping from an island exile

skeleton shrimp (Caprella mutica); spectre shrimp; specter shrimp

bottle breakage; broken bottle

in calligraphy, an abbreviated or mistaken form of a character, or a work written in more than one calligraphic style

rupture disk

(girl's arrival at) puberty

opening section of a Chinese poem or essay (in which the topic is broached); broaching the topic of a poem or essay in its opening lines

Buddhism

establishing and refuting (a doctrine)

Medicine

myocardial rupture; cardiac rupture; heart rupture; cardiorrhexis

destroying a lock