Illustration: Just inside an apartment entrance, a shopper lifts an overloaded paper grocery bag by its handles. A long jagged split opens down one side, with the paper fibers visibly separating around the bulge of a daikon. An onion is already falling through the widening gap toward the tiled floor.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

裂さける

sakeru

to tear, to split

Example sentences

  1. この布ぬのは裂さけやすい。

    This cloth tears easily.

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  2. 釘くぎで彼かれの上着うわぎが裂さけた。

    The nail tore his jacket.

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  3. 彼女かのじょの服ふくは裂さけていた。

    Her dress was torn.

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Kanji in 裂

  • 裂split; rendOnレツKunさく・さける

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