# 割 — Divide

Frequency rank 499 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 去 (Past), less common than 薬 (Medicine).

- On’yomi: かつ
- Kun’yomi: わり、わ、さ
- Radical: 刀 Knife (Kangxi 18)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A roof on top, rib cage and mouth in the middle, knife on the right — a knife slashes through the rib cage in the mouth under the roof, dividing the space in two.

In words:

- 割れる われる — to break
- 割 かつ — divide;cut;halve;separate;split;rip;break;crack;smash;dilute
- 割合 わりあい — rate,ratio,percentage

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