破
pò HSK3

break

破 pò
to break verb
to break; to split; to cleave; to destroy

你想干什么，打破窗户吗？

nǐ xiǎng gàn​shén​me, dǎ pò chuāng​hu ma?

What are you trying to do, break the window?

to exceed verb
to exceed or break a record, limit, or pattern

所以你已经破了规矩。

suǒ​yǐ nǐ yǐ​jing pò le guī​ju.

So, you've already broken the rules.

broken adjectiveverb
broken; damaged; torn; worn out; (informal) lousy; poor quality; poor; inferior

你的衣服破了。

nǐ de yī​fu pò le.

Your clothes are torn.

through particle
(as a resultative) through; into pieces; clearly, as in 看破 kàn​pò or 识破 shí​pò

有人踢破了宠物门。

yǒu rén tī pò le chǒng​wù mén.

Somebody kicked the pet door in.

to reveal verbnoun
to reveal the truth; to expose a lie or mystery; to see through
to defeat
to defeat the enemy; to capture a city or position
to get rid of
to get rid of; to do away with; to eliminate or break with old habits
to change money
to break a large bill into small change
to spend
to spend money; to waste or lose wealth
qupo
the faster movement or climax of a musical suite in ancient China

Cross-References

Referenced by

Frequency
Character
Written text
604th most common 347.6 per million
Movie subtitles
620th most common 225.0 per million appears in 67% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
85.2 per million appears in 29% of films
Written text
88.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+7834

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