破
broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of
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Dict coverage rank #410 U+7834
How 破 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
石 (semantic, “rock”) + 皮 (phonetic, pí)
How to remember it
break · Heisig RSH #710
岩 rock + 皮 covering
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 皮
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 皮 (pí) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 皮 sound component | pí | skin, hide, fur, feathers |
| 波 | bō | waves, ripples, breakers; undulations |
| 被 | bèi | bedding; a passive particle meaning "by" |
| 坡 | pō | slope, hillside, embankment |
| 彼 | bǐ | that, those, the other |
| 玻 | bō | glass |
| 疲 | pí | weak, tired, exhausted |
| 颇 | pō | rather, quite; partial, biased |
| 陂 | bēi | dam, embankment; reservoir |
| 簸 | bǒ | dustpan; to winnow, to toss |
| 跛 | bǒ | lame |
| 帔 | pèi | cape, robe, skirt |
| 铍 | pí | beryllium |
Words containing 破
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一语道破 | yī yǔ dào pò | one word says it all (idiom); to hit the nail on the head; to be pithy and correct |
| 不破不立 | bù pò bù lì | without destruction there can be no construction |
| 大破大立 | dà pò dà lì | to destroy the old and establish the new (idiom); radical transformation |
| 老牛拉破车 | lǎo niú lā pò chē | see 老牛破車|老牛破车[lao3 niu2 po4 che1] |
| 头破血流 | tóu pò xuè liú | lit. head broken and blood flowing; fig. badly bruised |
| 破体字 | pò tǐ zi | nonstandard or corrupted form of a Chinese character |
| 老牛破车 | lǎo niú pò chē | lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom); fig. slow and inefficient |
| 破家 | pò jiā | to destroy one's family |
| 破音字 | pò yīn zì | character with two or more readings; character where different readings convey different m… |
| 破发 | pò fā | (of a stock) to fall below the issue price; (of a tennis player) to break serve (abbr. for… |
| 破门而入 | pò mén ér rù | to break the door down and enter (idiom) |
| 鱼死网破 | yú sǐ wǎng pò | lit. either the fish dies or the net splits; a life and death struggle (idiom) |
| 破口 | pò kǒu | tear or rupture; to have a tear (e.g. in one's clothes); without restraint (e.g. of sweari… |
| 一语破的 | yī yǔ pò dì | see 一語中的|一语中的[yi1 yu3 zhong4 di4] |
| 破事 | pò shì | trivial matter; trifle; annoying thing |
| 破开 | pò kāi | to split; to cut open |
| 道破 | dào pò | to expose; to reveal |
| 破门 | pò mén | to burst or force open a door; to excommunicate sb (from the Roman Catholic Church); to sc… |
| 打破 | dǎ pò | to break; to smash |
| 点破 | diǎn pò | to lay bare in a few words; to expose with a word; to point out bluntly |