IDENTITY
坏huàibad; broken
HSK 2Top 450
CORE MEANING
bad; broken
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.badHSK2
- 2.brokenHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 土earth radical (tǔ)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰土不
- earth; ruins
- gives the sound huài (historical)
USAGE
Common words
坏处huàichudisadvantage
坏蛋huàidànbad person (colloq.)
Graded examples
天气变坏了。Tiānqì biàn huài le.HSK4
The weather has turned bad.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 环
LEARNING
Memory aid
Earth (土) that is not (不) good — ruined, bad. (From 壞.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #450
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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