破
pò HSK3

break

破 pò
broken verb
physically damaged, worn out, or torn

我的袜子破了一个洞。

wǒ de wà​zi pò le yī gè dòng.

My sock has a hole in it.

lousy adjective
poor in quality, worthless, or rotten

我才不想去那种破地方。

wǒ cái bù xiǎng qù nà zhǒng pò dì​fang.

I don't want to go to a dump like that.

expose verb
to reveal the truth, solve a mystery, or see through a trick

一眼就看破了他的谎言。

yī yǎn jiù kàn pò le tā de huǎng​yán.

His lie was seen through at a glance.

break verb
to break a record, eliminate a habit, or change a convention

他上周打破了世界纪录。

tā shàng zhōu dǎ pò le shì​jiè jì​lù.

He broke the world record last week.

defeat verb
to overcome an enemy or capture a fortified position

大军只用了三天就攻破了城池。

dà​jūn zhǐ yòng le sān tiān jiù gōng pò le chéng​chí.

The army took only three days to capture the city.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)