Because of shoaling, refraction, friction, and other effects, a surface-wave propagating on a gently sloping bottom of slope will eventually break. In this paper, by nonlinearizing the problem and using a perturbation method, an analytical solution for the velocity potential is derived to the second order for the bottom slope α and the wave steepness ε in a Eulerian system. Then, the wave profile and the breaking wave characteristics are found by transforming the flow field into a Lagrangian system. By use of the kinematic stability parameter (K.S.P), new theoretical breaker characteristics are derived. Thus, the linear theories of other scholars are extended to breaking waves. A Comparison of the present analytical solution with experimental studies of other scholars shows reasonable agreement except that the breaking depth is underestimated.