碎
suì HSK5

break

碎 suì
shatter verb
to break into pieces, crumble, or be broken

碗掉在地上摔碎了。

wǎn diào zài dì shàng shuāi suì le.

The bowl fell on the floor and shattered.

fragmentary adjective
scattered, broken into small bits, or incomplete

他把碎纸片拼在了一起。

tā bǎ suì zhǐ​piàn pīn zài le yī​qǐ.

He pieced the scraps of paper back together.

garrulous adjective
talkative, nagging, or rambling in speech

这个人的话实在太碎，让人听得不耐烦。

zhè gè rén de huà shí​zài tài suì, ràng rén tīng de bù​nài​fán.

He talks way too much; it's quite irritating to listen to.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,420th most common 79.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,173rd most common 75.2 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
34.7 per million appears in 14% of films
Written text
50.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+788E

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