坏
huàiguàipéi HSK1

rotten

坏 壞 huài frequency
bad adjective
bad; evil; harmful; the opposite of 好 hǎo

借钱既不好也不坏。

jiè qián jì bù hǎo yě bù huài.

Borrowing money is neither good nor bad.

to go bad verbadjective
to spoil; to go bad; to break down or become non-functional

你的车坏了吗？

nǐ de chē huài le ma?

Is your car broken?

那个钟是坏了吗？

nà​ge zhōng shì huài le ma?

Is that clock broken?

[utmost] particleadjective
Used after a verb or adjective to show that a state or feeling has reached an extreme degree.

她一定饿坏了。

tā yī​dìng è huài le.

She must be starving.

dirty trick
an evil idea or a malicious trick
坏 壞 guài
to ruin particle
(literary) to ruin; to destroy; to demolish
坏 péi
(bound form) unbaked pottery
(bound form) unbaked bricks or pottery; a low hill or mound of earth
(bound form) to seal
(bound form) to seal or stop up gaps with earth or mud; to wall up

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Frequency
Character
Written text
832nd most common 215.6 per million
Movie subtitles
455th most common 322.5 per million appears in 80% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
233.8 per million appears in 60% of films
Written text
63.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
壞
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+574F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)