破棄
はき · haki · JLPT N1 · noun
breaking
📜 破 = break + 棄 = abandon: break it and throw it away, like a treaty
Break (破) plus abandon (棄): a treaty is torn up and discarded, so it no longer binds anyone. The same 破 appears in 破壊, destruction.
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.'