Pinyin: pò

broken; to break

Example sentence

我的鞋破了一个洞。

Wǒ de xié pò le yí gè dòng.

My shoe has a hole in it.

What 破 means

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

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HSK 4

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