Keyword
to tear
Info
FrequencyTop 300-400
Type
Kyōiku (5th grade) 
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KankenLevel 6
Heisig869
Readings
(62%)
やぶ
(25%)
(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 (285 in total)
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
Examples (173 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.