裂く

• 読み: さく
• ローマ字: saku
• 漢字の分解: 裂 (retsu/sa) — tear, rip, split
• 発音: /sa.kɯ/

意味

To tear; to rip; to split apart. The act of forcefully dividing something into pieces.

A Group 1 (godan) verb conjugated with the く row. A transitive verb for physically tearing cloth, paper, or other materials. Also used figuratively: 時間を裂く (to spare/carve out time), 二人の仲を裂く (to tear two people apart). The intransitive counterpart is 裂ける (to tear/split on its own). Common in both everyday and literary contexts.

例文

1. 古い布を手で裂いて雑巾にした。
2. 忙しい中、面接のために時間を裂いてくれた。
3. 強い風で旗が裂けそうになっていた。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, literature, time management

トーン: forceful

起源と歴史

The kanji 裂 combines 衣 (clothing) and 列 (row/line), suggesting fabric being split along a line — a tear running through cloth.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal