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

like a hot knife through butter (idiom) / with irresistible force
(of sth sharp) to snag (one's stockings etc)
to be scared out of one's wits / to scare stiff
the country ruined and the people starving (idiom)
(Internet slang) to have a simplistic view of sth (transcription of "too young, too simple" – English words spoken by Jiang Zemin 江澤民|江泽民[Jiang1 Ze2 min2] in chastizing Hong Kong reporters in 2000)
to destroy the old and establish the new (idiom) / radical transformation
see 石破天驚|石破天惊[shi2 po4 tian1 jing1]
see 看破[kan4 po4]

Sentences with 破

破 currently does not appear in any sentence.