破坏

破壞traditional

HSK 5#1527 by frequencyradical 石

pò huài["v","vn"]

destruction; damage; to wreck; to break; to destroy

Examples

我认为考试破坏教育。

I think exams ruin education.

这破坏会花费我们很多钱。

The damage will cost us a lot of money.

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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.