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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坏* | 坏* | *坏
bad / spoiled / broken / to break down / (suffix) to the utmost
HSK 1
destruction / damage / to wreck / to break / to destroy
HSK 3
to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
HSK 3
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  *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
to break; to smash
HSK 3
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  *断* | 断* | *断
to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly
HSK 3
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  *折* | 折* | *折
to break / to fracture / to snap / to suffer loss / to bend / to twist / to turn / to change direction / convinced / to convert into (currency) / discount / rebate / tenth (in price) / classifier for theatrical scenes / to fold / accounts book
HSK 4
to part company / to split up / to break up
HSK 4
to break away from / to cast off (old ideas etc) / to get rid of / to break away (from) / to break out (of) / to free oneself from / to extricate oneself
HSK 4
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  *散* | 散* | *散
to scatter / to break up (a meeting etc) / to disperse / to disseminate / to dispel / (coll.) to sack
HSK 4
to break through / to make a breakthrough / to surmount (an obstacle) / (sports) to break through the opponent's defense
HSK 5
to resolve / to decompose / to break down
HSK 5
to cut short / to break off / to discontinue / to interrupt
HSK 5
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  *碎* | 碎* | *碎
(transitive or intransitive) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble / broken; fragmentary; scattered / garrulous
HSK 5
to separate oneself from / to break away from / diastasis (medicine) / abscission / abjunction (botany)
HSK 5
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  *摔* | 摔* | *摔
to throw down / to fall / to drop and break
HSK 5
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  *歇* | 歇* | *歇
to rest / to take a break / to stop / to halt / (dialect) to sleep / a moment / a short while
HSK 5
illegal / to break the law
HSK 5
to divide (into) / to split a bonus / to break into / tenths / percentage allotment
HSK 5
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  *闯* | 闯* | *闯
to rush / to charge / to dash / to break through / to temper oneself (through battling hardships)
HSK 5
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  *解* | 解* | *解
to divide / to break up / to split / to separate / to dissolve / to solve / to melt / to remove / to untie / to loosen / to open / to emancipate / to explain / to understand / to know / a solution / a dissection
HSK 6
to split up / to divide / to break up / fission / schism
HSK 6
to break out / to erupt / to explode / to burst out
HSK 6
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  *裂* | 裂* | *裂
to split / to crack / to break open / to rend
HSK 6
to break the rules / an illegality / a foul
HSK 6
to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone)
HSK 6
to cut up / to break up
HSK 7-9
to break a promise / to violate an agreement / to default (on a loan or contract)
HSK 7-9
to renovate / to refurbish / to refresh (computer window) / to write a new page (in history) / to break (a record)
HSK 7-9
to break new ground (for agriculture) / to open up (a new seam) / to develop (border regions) / fig. to open up (new horizons)
HSK 7-9
to cease / to suspend / to break off / to stop / to discontinue
HSK 7-9
to break (a bond, constraint etc) / to explain / to unravel / to decipher / to decode / to crack (software)
HSK 7-9
to burst; to rupture / (of a relationship etc) to break down
HSK 7-9
to break up into components / to disintegrate / to collapse / to crumble
HSK 7-9
to flare up; to break out
HSK 7-9
fracture / rupture / to break apart
HSK 7-9
to break in / to wear in
HSK 7-9
to halt / to break off / pause (in speech)
HSK 7-9
disconnected / interrupted / suspended / a gap / a break
HSK 7-9
to break the rules / to violate regulations
HSK 7-9
(medicine) to suffer paralysis / (fig.) to be paralyzed; to break down; to come to a standstill
HSK 7-9
to lose one's love / to break up (in a romantic relationship) / to feel jilted
HSK 7-9
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  *掰* | 掰* | *掰
to break off or break open sth with one's hands / (fig.) to break off (a relationship)
HSK 7-9
turning point / breaking point
HSK 7-9
a problem appears / to break down
HSK 7-9
to suffer a fracture / (of a bone) to break / fracture
HSK 7-9
lack of discipline / to break a rule / to violate discipline / to breach a principle
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备 Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉 as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操 Wei as villains
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *击* | 击* | *击
to hit / to strike / to break / Taiwan pr. [ji2]
to break up into parts
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  *突* | 突* | *突
to dash / to move forward quickly / to bulge / to protrude / to break through / to rush out / sudden / Taiwan pr. [tu2]
to break out of prison / to jailbreak (an iOS device etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *掊* | 掊* | *掊
break up / hit
(literary) to break off relations with a friend / to sever ties with sb
to break the rules
(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break / (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued / (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected / cut off
to break ground (prior to building sth) / to start building
to divide (into subgroups etc); to break down (into subcategories, subprocesses etc)
Diaochan (-192), one of the four legendary beauties 四大美女, in fiction a famous beauty at the break-up of Han dynasty, given as concubine to usurping warlord Dong Zhuo 董卓 to ensure his overthrow by fighting hero Lü Bu 呂布|吕布
to rupture / to burst open / to break / to break off relations with / a rupture
to divide into rows / to identify subcategories / to break down into constituent parts / breakdown / disaggregation
to break the law
lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom) / fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way / to break through hardships / to blaze a new trail
dilapidated wall / to break through a wall / (fig.) to break through / (biotechnology) to disrupt cell walls / cell disruption
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *折* | 折* | *折
to snap / to break (a stick, a bone etc) / (bound form) to sustain a loss (in business)
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  *摧* | 摧* | *摧
to break / to destroy / to devastate / to ravage / to repress
to break / to sever / to turn off (electric switch)
growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
to break even / to guarantee a minimum (salary etc)
to scatter / to break sth up / to beat (an egg)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *晗* | 晗* | *晗
before daybreak / dawn about to break / (used in given names)
to collapse; to disintegrate; to crumble / to disrupt; to break up
to ruin / to spoil / to break
to break a promise / breach of contract
to dismember / (fig.) to break into parts
to discharge water / to appear out of the water / to break the surface
heartbroken / to break one's heart
to break a promise
fragment / piece / (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing
to break the door down and enter (idiom)
to break into a home when no one is there (to steal)
to break ground / to start digging / to plough / to break through the ground (of seedling) / fig. the start of a building project
to start sth new or original (idiom); to break a new path / to break fresh ground
to break off relations / to break with sb
to break the rule / to make an exception
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  *嚗* | 嚗* | *嚗
(onom.) sound of sth splitting or breaking apart / sound of an object falling to the ground / a cry of rage / Taiwan pr. [bo1]
(of a horse etc) to break free from the reins / (fig.) to become unconstrained
to break a promise of marriage
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坼* | 坼* | *坼
to crack / to split / to break / to chap
to end a relationship / to break off diplomatic ties
to break off an engagement
to rest / to relax / to take a break
to sever; to break off
(physics) to undergo nuclear fission / (fig.) to break apart, forming smaller units; to fragment
to break one's promise
to burst out / to appear unexpectedly / to break (media story)
to break even
to bring to a conclusion / to settle (a dispute) / to do away with (oneself) / to break off (a relationship) / resolution (of a problem)
to shatter; to smash; to break into pieces
to rupture / to burst open / to break up

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