垮
kuǎ HSK7

be defeated

垮 kuǎ
to fail verb
to collapse or break down figuratively; to be defeated or routed (of an army, business, or regime)

从那时起，他就试图把我们弄垮。

cóng nà​shí qǐ, tā jiù shì​tú bǎ wǒ​men nòng kuǎ.

He's been trying to take us down ever since.

to collapse verb
to tumble down or cave in; used for buildings, walls, or dams

这棵树在2016年开始分裂，第二年完全垮掉了。

zhè kē shù zài2016 nián kāi​shǐ fēn​liè, dì'èr nián wán​quán kuǎ diào le.

The tree started to split in 2016 and collapsed completely the following year.

to break down verb
to break down or give out, such as one's health or physical stamina

这一次，我真的垮了。

zhè​yī​cì, wǒ zhēn​de kuǎ le.

This time, I really broke down.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,674th most common 15.3 per million
Movie subtitles
2,167th most common 14.7 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.4 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
7.94 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+57AE

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