Pinyin: huài

bad; broken

Example sentence

我的手机坏了。

Wǒ de shǒujī huài le.

My phone is broken.

What 坏 means

(huài) is a Chinese word meaning “bad; broken”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 3 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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HSK 3

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