壞

See also 坏, and 壊

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 褱

Han character

壞 (radical 32 土+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 土卜田女 (GYWV), four-corner 4413₂)

1. be rotten
2. bad, spoil(ed), ruin, destroy

References

• KangXi: page 242, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5590
• Dae Jaweon: page 481, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 500, character 2
• Unihan data for U+58DE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

壞 (simplified 坏, Yale waai6)

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Japanese

Kanji

壞

Readings

• On: かい (kai), え (e)
• Kun: こわす (kowasu)

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Korean

Hanja

壞 (hangeul 괴, 회, revised goe, hoe, McCune-Reischauer koe, hoe)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

壞 (simplified 坏, pinyin huài (huai4), xùn (xun4), Wade-Giles huai⁴, hsün⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

壞 (hoại, hoải, hoai)