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to break, to rout; to ruin, to destroy

🔤 Pictophonetic: 石 (rock) provides meaning, 皮 provides pronunciation
HSK 4 10 strokes Very Common (6%)

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⿰石皮 i

Stroke Order

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Component Tree i

shí
stone, rock, mineral
💡 Ideographic: A rock 口 at the base of a cliff 厂
5 strokes HSK 5
skin, hide, fur, feathers
📷 Pictographic: A hand using a tool 攴 to strip the hide from a carcass
5 strokes HSK 3

Words Using 破 (153)

HSK 4
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
pòchǎn
破产
HSK 5
to go bankrupt / to become impoverished / bankruptcy
pòhuài
破坏
HSK 5
destruction / damage / to wreck / to break / to destroy
tūpò
突破
HSK 6
to break through / to make a breakthrough / to surmount or break the back of (a task etc) / (of ball sports) to break through a defense
pòlì
破例
HSK 6
to make an exception
dǎpò
打破
to break / to smash
pòjiě
破解
to break (a bond, constraint etc) / to explain / to unravel / to decipher / to decode
bàopò
爆破
to blow up / to demolish (using explosives) / dynamite / blast
pòsuì
破碎
to smash to pieces / to shatter
pòliè
破裂
to rupture / to fracture / to break down / (linguistics) plosion
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