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

surname Pi

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

surname Shi / abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1]

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]

dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dou3]; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2]

to investigate (as detective) / to solve (crime) / to uncover (a plot) / to sniff out / to break in and analyze / detective work / to scout

breakthrough / to overcome an obstacle quickly

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

assured destruction strategy

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

see 一語中的|一语中的[yi1 yu3 zhong4 di4]