破

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

• 㗞, 𫮒, 𰔓, 𭵤, 𥖕, 𥖑, 𪜘, 𰧅, 𥖓, 𥖖, 𥖺, 𬒧

• 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

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

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”); the connection to the Burmese is supported by Hill (2019). 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.

破

1. to break; to tear
2. to break; to break with; to smash
3. to ruin; to destroy
4. to rout; to drive out; to drive away; to banish
5. to remove; to clear; to eliminate; to dispel
6. to spend; to expend
7. to cleave (with a tool or hands); to cut open; to split open
8. to expose; to lay bare; to show up
9. to break a banknote into small change
10. broken; worn out; damaged
11. (colloquial) low-quality; poor; lousy
12. (slang) to handle; to deal with; to do

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

• (to smash):

• (to ruin):

• (to rout):

• (to remove):

• (to spend): 耗費／耗费 (hàofèi), 花費／花费 (huāfèi), 開銷／开销 (kāixiāo), 開支／开支 (kāizhī), (polite) 破費／破费 (pòfèi), 消費／消费 (xiāofèi), (Hokkien) 開舉／开举, (Hokkien) 開用／开用, (Hokkien) 開使用／开使用
• (to cleave): 劈開／劈开 (pīkāi)
• (to expose):

• (broken):

• (low-quality):

• → Thai: ผ่า (pàa)

• “破”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “破”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 445.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “破”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 178.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. break
2. cut

• 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)

• (Tokyo) は [háꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠]

破 (eum 파 (pa))

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破: Hán Nôm readings: phá, vỡ

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