破

Translingual

Han character

破 (Kangxi radical 112, 石+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一口木竹水 (MRDHE), four-corner 1464₇, composition ⿰石皮)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 829, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24124
• Dae Jaweon: page 1244, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2426, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7834

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		破

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
陂	*pral, *prals
詖	*pral, *prals
彼	*pralʔ
柀	*pralʔ
佊	*pralʔ, *prals
貱	*prals
跛	*prals, *paːlʔ
披	*pʰral, *pʰralʔ
鈹	*pʰral
帔	*pʰral, *pʰrals
鮍	*pʰral
耚	*pʰral
狓	*pʰral
翍	*pʰral
旇	*pʰral, *brals
秛	*pʰral, *pʰrals
紴	*pʰralʔ, *paːl
皮	*bral
疲	*bral
被	*bralʔ, *brals
髲	*brals
鞁	*brals
骳	*mbralʔ
波	*paːl
碆	*paːl, *baːl
菠	*paːl
簸	*paːlʔ, *paːls
駊	*paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
頗	*pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡	*pʰaːl
玻	*pʰaːl
破	*pʰaːls
婆	*baːl
蔢	*baːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pʰaːls) : semantic 石 + phonetic 皮 (OC *bral).

Etymology

According to Schuessler (2007), cognate with Burmese ဖဲ့ (hpai., “to break off a small piece”), Dimasa bai (“break”), Mizo peh (peʔ, “to break; be broken”). However, STEDT derives the above three terms from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(p/b)aj (“to break out; to break off; to hatch”) and does not compare 破 (OC *pʰaːls) to it.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 破

1. to break; to ruin; to destroy
2. to rout; to drive out; to drive away; to banish
3. broken; worn out; damaged
4. (colloquial) low-quality; poor; lousy
5. (slang) to handle; to deal with; to do

   怎麼破？／怎么破？  ―  Zěnme pò?  ―  (slang) What to do?

6. (Sichuanese) to cut open

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

破

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. break
2. cut

Readings

• Go-on: は (ha, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: は (ha, Jōyō)
• Kun: やぶる (yaburu, 破る, Jōyō); やぶれる (yabureru, 破れる, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 破(は)傷(しょう)風(ふう) (hashōfū): tetanus
• 破(は)城(じょう)槌(つい) (hajōtsui): a battering ram
• 破(は)壊(かい) (hakai): fracture
• 破(は)天(てん)荒(こう) (hatenkō): unprecedented
• 破(は)局(きょく) (hakyoku): catastrophe
• 破(は)屋(おく) (haoku)
• 破(は)廉(れん)恥(ち) (harenchi): shameless, scandalous, disgraceful
• 破(は)戒(かい) (hakai): breaking a commandment
• 破(は)損(そん) (hason): damage
• 破(は)格(かく) (hakaku): exceptional
• 破(は)棄(き) (haki): discard
• 破(は)滅(めつ) (hametsu): destruction
• 破(は)獄(ごく) (hagoku): a jailbreak
• 破(は)瓜(か) (haka)
• 破(は)産(さん) (hasan): bankruptcy
• 破(は)砕(さい) (hasai): crushing
• 破(は)算(さん) (hasan): a fresh start
• 破(は)約(やく) (hayaku): cancellation or breaking of a contract
• 破(は)綻(たん) (hatan): bankruptcy
• 破(は)船(せん) (hasen): shipwreck
• 破(は)裂(れつ) (haretsu): explosion
• 破(は)談(だん) (hadan): break off
• 破(は)門(もん) (hamon): excommunication
• 破(は)風(ふ) (hafu): gable
• 破(は)魔(ま) (hama): exorcism
• 破(やぶれ)屋(や) (yabureya)

 

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Korean

Hanja

破 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 破 (phá, vỡ)

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