破れる
やぶれる · yabureru · JLPT N3 · verb-ichidan
to get torn
🧦 破 = stone 石 + skin 皮: a stone tears the hide. Yabureru sounds like ya-BROKE
The kanji 破 joins 石 (stone) with 皮 (skin, hide), so a stone rips through the hide. Yabureru, as in ya-BROKE-ru, is for socks or paper that tear or wear through. Related: 破る (yaburu), to tear something on purpose.
破 — stone 石 + skin/hide 皮
破 is a semantic-phonetic compound: 石 (stone) gives the meaning 'to break, smash,' since stones were used to crack things, while 皮 (pí) supplies the sound. The original sense of breaking stone broadened to mean 'broken,' 'damaged,' or 'to defeat.'