坏

坏 U+574F, 坏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-574F ← 坎 [U+574E] CJK Unified Ideographs 坐 → [U+5750]

See also: 壞

Translingual

Traditional	壞
Shinjitai	壊
Simplified	坏

Stroke order

Etymology

Simplified from 壞 (褱 → 不)

Han character

坏 (radical 32 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土一火 (GMF), four-corner 4119₀, composition ⿰土不)

References

• KangXi: page 225, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4930
• Dae Jaweon: page 460, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 421, character 11
• Unihan data for U+574F

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Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 坏 – see 壞. (This character, 坏, is the simplified form of 壞.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 坏 – see 坯. (This character, 坏, is a variant form of 坯.)

Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		坏
alt. forms		坯

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pī, pēi

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧ, ㄆㄟ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: pī
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pi
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: pēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ei¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pei
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰeɪ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

坏

1. unfired pottery and bricks; base
2. low hill
3. wall
4. to use earth to fill a crack

Compounds

Derived terms from 坏

• 坏土
• 拉坏

• 捏坏

• 鑿坏／凿坏

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

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Japanese

Kanji

坏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): はい (hai)
• Kun: おか (oka), つき (tsuki)

Noun

坏 (hiragana つき, rōmaji tsuki)

1. (archaic) shallow bowl

Alternative forms

• 杯

坏 (hiragana さかずき, rōmaji sakazuki)

1. Alternative form of 盃

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Korean

Hanja

坏 • (bae) (hangeul 배, McCune-Reischauer pae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

坏 (hoại)

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