看破

Chinese

		to see; to look at; to look after to see; to look at; to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard; it depends; think	to break; to split; broken to break; to split; broken; damaged; worn out
simp. and trad. (看破)		看	破

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kànpò

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄢˋ ㄆㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hon³ po³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khòaⁿ-phòa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kànpò
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄢˋ ㄆㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: kànpò
  - Wade–Giles: kʻan⁴-pʻo⁴
  - Yale: kàn-pwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kannpoh
  - Palladius: каньпо (kanʹpo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰän⁵¹⁻⁵³ pʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hon³ po³
  - Yale: hon po
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hon³ po³
  - Guangdong Romanization: hon³ po³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːn³³ pʰɔː³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khòaⁿ-phòa
  - Tâi-lô: khuànn-phuà
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qvoarphoax
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /kʰuã¹¹⁻⁵³ pʰua¹¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰuã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ pʰua⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰuã²¹⁻⁴¹ pʰua²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Singapore): /kʰuã²¹⁻⁴² pʰua²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰuã²¹⁻⁵³ pʰua²¹/

Verb

看破

to see through something
to be resigned to what is inevitable

Synonyms

(to see through something):

勘破 (kānpò) (literary)
參透 / 参透 (cāntòu)
看清 (kànqīng)
看穿 (kànchuān)
看透 (kàntòu)
睇穿 (tai² cyun¹) (Cantonese)
窺破 / 窥破 (kuīpò)
識破 / 识破 (shípò)

(to be resigned): (literary) 勘破 (kānpò)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
看	破
かん Grade: 6	は > ぱ Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かんぱ [káꜜǹpà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [kã̠mpa̠]

Noun

看(かん)破(ぱ) • (kanpa)

seeing through (e.g. someone's lies), reading (e.g. thoughts), penetrating, detecting

Verb

看(かん)破(ぱ)する • (kanpa suru) suru (stem 看(かん)破(ぱ)し (kanpa shi), past 看(かん)破(ぱ)した (kanpa shita))

Same as above.
Synonyms: 見破る (miyaburu), 見抜く (minuku)

敵(かたき)の計略(けいりゃく)を看破(かんぱ)する
kataki no keiryaku o kanpa suru
to see through enemy's plan

Conjugation

Conjugation of "看破する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	看破し	かんぱし	kanpa shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	看破し	かんぱし	kanpa shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	看破する	かんぱする	kanpa suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	看破する	かんぱする	kanpa suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	看破すれ	かんぱすれ	kanpa sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	看破せよ¹ 看破しろ²	かんぱせよ¹ かんぱしろ²	kanpa seyo¹ kanpa shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	看破される	かんぱされる	kanpa sareru
Causative	看破させる看破さす	かんぱさせるかんぱさす	kanpa saseru kanpa sasu
Potential	看破できる	かんぱできる	kanpa dekiru
Volitional	看破しよう	かんぱしよう	kanpa shiyō
Negative	看破しない	かんぱしない	kanpa shinai
Negative continuative	看破せず	かんぱせず	kanpa sezu
Formal	看破します	かんぱします	kanpa shimasu
Perfective	看破した	かんぱした	kanpa shita
Conjunctive	看破して	かんぱして	kanpa shite
Hypothetical conditional	看破すれば	かんぱすれば	kanpa sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

“看破”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026