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

= + : Pinocchio is playing with his cow hide in the observatory's bathroom. Unfortunately he accidentally destroys the toilet by hurling a huge rock at the toilet, using the cow hide as sling.

破 character breakdown

surname Pi
leather / skin / fur / CL:張|张[zhang1] / pico- (one trillionth) / naughty

= + 丿 + + : Mnemonic symbol: a cow's hide.

= + 丿 + + : Just inside the entrance of the space station Pocahontas destroys her cow's hide with a sickle because she decided to go vegan. Instead of leather she'll wear a banana peel as coat, boxing gloves as shoes and a big dinosaur bone as long hat.

= + 丿 + + : New mnemonic symbol, since I also use the cow's hide for 革: leather shoes.
surname Shi / abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1]

= + : Sherlock Holmes finds the space station's entrance blocked by a big rock. He uses a wind wheel and a mandarin to build a lever, with which he is able to move the rock.
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗 / ten pecks / one hundred liters
rock / stone / stone inscription / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Sherlock Holmes finds the space station's entrance blocked by a big rock. He uses a wind wheel and a mandarin to build a lever, with which he is able to move the rock.
dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dou3]; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2]

Characters with 破 as component

破 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 破

to investigate (as detective) / to solve (crime) / to uncover (a plot) / to sniff out / to break in and analyze / detective work / to scout
to cut open / to rip / to streak across (lightning, meteor etc) / to pierce (scream, searchlight etc)
to brave the wind and the billows (idiom); to have high ambitions
(of a rumor etc) to collapse (in the light of facts etc) / to be discredited
one word says it all (idiom) / to hit the nail on the head / to be pithy and correct
see 一語中的|一语中的[yi1 yu3 zhong4 di4]
lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me
to puncture / to pierce
without destruction there can be no construction

Sentences with 破

破 currently does not appear in any sentence.