破坏 pòhuài▶ Destrucción

Stroke order

破坏 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 破 — 10 strokes
• 坏 — 7 strokes

Senses

1. destruction
2. damage
3. to wreck
4. to break
5. to destroy

Related words

• 破产bancarrota, quiebra
• 破roto
• 损坏daño
• 破例Hacer una excepción
• 突破Incumplimiento; brecha
• 败坏Corrupto; corromper

破坏 is pronounced pòhuài and means “Destrucción”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 破坏 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.