Keyword
break
Info
FrequencyTop 500-600
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 4
Heisig427
Old form
Readings
かい
(55%)
こわ
(43%)
Composed of
earth
ten
small net
garment
Used in vocabulary (133 in total)
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
Examples (191 in total)
He was ignorant of the fact that the town had been destroyed.
The town was destroyed during the war.
The city was destroyed in the war.
War results only in senseless and violent destruction.
This old car is always broken.
This desk is broken.
This is broken.
The broken doll is mine.
The building may crash at any time.
It's broken.
Why are pretty things so fragile?
Is anything broken?
If it's not broken, don't fix it.
His car was seriously damaged.
He repaired the broken window of my house.
My phone was broken.
The mirror broke.
My mobile phone is broken.
This machine is broken.
You broke the table you were sitting on.
This boy denied having broken the window.
By whom was this window broken?
You broke it again!
You must take care not to break it.
He broke the window.
I watched them destroy the old building.
They are breaking down the wall.
If you break it again, I'm not going to fix it.
I broke it.
We must tear down this house.
Who broke this window?
Who broke this?
Who broke the window?
The television is broken.
He broke his new smartphone.
She breaks something every time she cleans the room.
The clock that got broken must be repaired right away.
He made the excuse that his watch was wrong.
He promised to see about my broken watch.
The building was completely destroyed.
Someone broke into our house.
My camera broke.
He found a broken camera.
The war brought about death and destruction in the city.
War is destruction of human life.
That boy often breaks our windows with a ball.
The building crumbled to pieces three years ago.
The bridge couldn't sustain the force of the strong current and collapsed.
Many cities were destroyed by bombs.
My umbrella broke.
Aaah!! My computer is broken!
My computer is broken.
Culture destroys language.
The soldiers' mission was to destroy the bridge.
Who broke this pen?
My TV broke, so I had to take it to get it repaired.
He fixed the broken table.
My father is repairing my broken bicycle.
My father fixes broken chairs.
That destroyed all his dreams.
The shower is broken.
The building was totally destroyed by the earthquake.
The earthquake destroyed everything.
There are many houses destroyed by the earthquake.
The road was partly destroyed in consequence of the earthquake.
They had their houses destroyed by a strong earthquake.
The radio is broken.
Can you fix the broken radio?
Another storm, and our village would have been ruined.
The fire destroyed the tall building.
The machine broke because he had not looked after it properly.
It was yesterday that I broke the window by mistake.
They will tear down the old building in two days.
It was yesterday that Jake broke this window.
Was it Jack that broke the window?
I've lost or broken all my necklaces.
Much of London was destroyed in the seventeenth century.
I had had my watch repaired, but it broke again.
I had no difficulty breaking the lock.
The tornado destroyed the whole village.
John broke the window.
In opening the door, I broke the lock.
I had broken my glasses, so that I couldn't see the blackboard.
I broke down the door because I lost the key.
It took three hours to put the broken toy together.
That broken vase is my grandfather's.
This broken vase can't be repaired.
This vase is fragile.
I must apologize to you for breaking the vase.
Mary broke her new smartphone.
The typhoon destroyed many houses.
The typhoon left behind a trail of destruction.
Not a few houses were destroyed in the typhoon.
We got our roof damaged by the typhoon.
Finally, their friendship ended and their close relationship disappeared.
The news was all about the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Also, a lot of houses were damaged; windows were often broken throughout the town.
The engineers blew up the bridge because it was about to collapse.
The lock is broken.
My laptop broke.
His regime is bound to collapse.
Your mother is trying to break up our marriage.
Only part of the building has been destroyed by the earthquake.
The town was destroyed by the flood after the storm.
Both of the windows were broken.
Did Tom break something again?
Tom fixed the broken chair.
The vase that Tom broke is Mary's.
Tom broke a window.
It was yesterday that Tom broke the window.
Tom has dropped and broken his phone twice this year.
Tom's house was destroyed by a tsunami.
Tom repaired the broken radio.
Tom broke his new smartphone.
Please tell Tom that it's broken.
It was Tom that broke the window yesterday.
The dam burst and water flooded the valley.
The city was ruined by the brutal force of nature.
Most houses were destroyed to pieces.
My father fixed the broken chair.
The house seemed about to collapse at any moment.
The house just crumbled, turning into a pile of stones.
A lot of buildings collapsed in Japan due to the earthquake yesterday.
The house collapsed a week later.
They replaced the broken television with a new one.
Water spouted from the broken faucet.
Is that long chimney broken?
The earphones I'd been using for a long time finally broke.
The heating in the dorm is broken.
The devil destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The dam burst owing to the heavy rain.
She broke the window on purpose.
It proved to be the deathblow to their plan.
They confirmed the importance of strengthening global precautions in order to prevent devastating losses.
This desk was broken by Tony.
In the past month, three houses, all in good condition, have been torn down.
The old building was broken down.
The old houses were torn down to make room for a supermarket.
The old house was demolished.
They decided to pull down the old building.
They tore the old house down.
They will take down the house in a day.
We must work hard to break down social barriers.
The oldest movie theater in town is being pulled down now.
The house in which we lived was torn down.
We saw the old building pulled down.
We saw some old houses pulled down.
I couldn't stand my house being torn down.
They demolished the old temple to build a skyscraper.
I can't listen to music at night anymore because my headphones broke.
It was in the 1920s that a big earthquake destroyed Tokyo.
Three-fourths of the town was destroyed by the typhoon.
My bicycle broke.
This hut is in danger of falling down.
Old customs are gradually being destroyed.
Most of the buildings were destroyed in World War II.
Many of the buildings were destroyed in World War II.
It must've been broken during shipping.
Small children can be very destructive.
He ruined his health by working too much.
The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The storm destroyed the whole town.
My cellphone charger broke down.
The whole world could be destroyed by an atomic war.
The atomic bomb destroyed the entire city of Hiroshima.
I made a temporary repair to the broken door.
The building was completely destroyed by the earthquake.
Three houses were completely destroyed.
He attached a "Fragile" label to the package.
The country's economy is about to collapse.
The obsolete regime is about to collapse.
She has broken the toaster again.
The heater is broken.
These fragile items must be insured against all risks.
During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.
It's a tragedy that rainforests are being destroyed for the sake of profits.
The destruction of the rainforests affects our environment.
Each year, twenty-seven million acres of the tropical rainforests are destroyed.
They knocked the box to pieces.
The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989.
Tom was twelve when the Berlin Wall fell.
The Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
The destruction of the ozone layer affects the environment.
The ozone layer continues to be further destroyed every year.
His flawlessly ordered life collapsed when his drug-addict brothers appeared.
Their habitat is threatened by deforestation.
It must have been broken during shipping.
The bursting of Japan's so-called bubble economy sent shock waves through international markets.
The cardboard boxes are fragile.
The Tudor Dynasty fell in the year 1603.
The eruption of the volcano Vesuvius destroyed the city of Pompeii.