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N4 Kanji 87: 別
Meaning:

In Japanese, 別 means “to break up with”.
How to read it:
Kunyomi | わか |
Onyomi | べつ |
How to write it:

Origin:

You can see a knife and the bone, when you break up with your girlfriend/boyfriend, it will be so painful that it feels like a knife is cutting your bone.
So it stands for “to break up with”.

Development:

Vocabulary:
Word | Reading | Meaning |
---|---|---|
別 | べつ | another |
別れる | わかれる | to break up with |
特別 | とくべつ | special |
区別 | くべつ | distinction |
差別 | さべつ | discrimination |
個別 | こべつ | individual |
別々 | べつべつ | separately |
別荘 | べっそう | villa |
性別 | せいべつ | gender |
識別 | しきべつ | identification |
格別 | かくべつ | exceptional |
分別 | ふんべつ | classification |
別人 | べつじん | another person |
別名 | べつめい | alias |
判別 | はんべつ | discrimination |
大別する | たいべつする | to divide roughly |
選別 | せんべつ | sorting |
別居 | べっきょ | living apart |
別個 | べっこ | separate |
別冊 | べっさつ | separate volume |
別物 | べつもの | another thing |
別途 | べっと | separately |
別室 | べっしつ | separate room |
死別 | しべつ | bereavement |
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