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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *破* | 破* | *破
broken / damaged / worn out / lousy / rotten / to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *烂* | 烂* | *烂
soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *糟* | 糟* | *糟
dregs / draff / pickled in wine / rotten / messy / ruined
HSK 5
corruption / to corrupt / to rot / rotten
HSK 7-9
a moldy smell / damp and rotten / fig. rotten bad luck
lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)
tooth decay; dental caries / decayed tooth; rotten tooth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *糜* | 糜* | *糜
rice gruel / rotten / to waste (money)
rotten / decayed / decadent / degenerate
HSK 7-9
withered and rotten
lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom) / fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
rotten to the core
lit. to swarm like flies around rotten food and drag out an ignoble existence like a dog (idiom) / fig. to lead an undignified life; to resort to any means for personal gain
rotten idea
rotten wood
rotten (smell) / stinking / putrid
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *朽* | 朽* | *朽
rotten
lit. a horse that brings trouble to its herd (idiom) / fig. troublemaker / black sheep / rotten apple
lousy / rotten
dissipated / rotten / decaying
lousy / rotten
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腐* | 腐* | *腐
decay / rotten
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *餯* | 餯* | *餯
(of food) rotten and smelly
rotten
decaying / rotten / decrepit
lit. to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom) / fig. to disregard long-term consequences for short-term benefits; shortsighted
slimy (of rotten food) / viscous / (mechanics) stick-slip
rotten
tooth decay; dental caries / decayed tooth; rotten tooth
tooth decay; dental caries / decayed tooth; rotten tooth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胔* | 胔* | *胔
rotten meat / bones of dead animal
to have rotten luck (stronger version of 倒霉)


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