破

HSK 4#1272 by frequencyradical 石

pò["v","a"]

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

Examples

哇！打破了！

Ahh! It broke!

他破了世界纪录。

He broke the world record.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.