Keyword
to tear
Info
FrequencyTop 300-400
Type
Kyōiku (5th grade) 
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KankenLevel 6
Heisig869
Readings
は
(63%)
やぶ
(24%)
ぱ
(11%)
Composed of
stone
skin (of an animal or a plant)
Mnemonic

You can try to tear the skin of a stone, but you'll probably just end up breaking it into pieces instead.

Used in vocabulary (316 in total)
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting (a difficulty); overcoming; exceeding; passing
Examples (200 in total)
It would probably be difficult to simply destroy it.
Even if we continue to defend like this, there is a possibility that we will eventually be breached.
Someone has broken through the gate!!