破 pò▶ hỏng

Stroke order

破 is written in 10 strokes.

• 破

Senses

1. broken
2. damaged
3. worn out
4. lousy
5. rotten
6. to break, split or cleave
7. to get rid of
8. to destroy
9. to break with
10. to defeat
11. to capture (a city etc)
12. to expose the truth of

Example sentences

• 他的鞋子破了。Tā de xiézi pò le.His shoes are worn through.
• 窗户上的玻璃破了。Chuānghu shàng de bōli pò le.The glass in the window is broken.

Related words

• 破产phá sản
• 破坏Hủy diệt
• 破例Tạo ngoại lệ
• 突破Vi phạm, sự vi phạm

破 is pronounced pò and means “hỏng”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 破 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.