IDENTITY
破pòbroken; to break
HSK 4Top 500
CORE MEANING
broken; to break
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.broken; wornHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 石stone radical (shí)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰石皮
- stone
- gives the sound pò (historical)
USAGE
Common words
破旧pòjiùworn-out
打破dǎpòto break
Graded examples
衣服破了。Yīfu pò le.HSK4
The clothes are torn.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 波
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A stone (石) splitting the skin (皮) — broken.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- 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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