(huài) - bad; broken in Mandarin
huàiTraditional: 坏
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Translation
bad; broken
Word origin
坏 (huài, 'bad, broken') in its simplified form is written with 土 (the earth radical) and 不 (bù, 'not') as phonetic. The traditional form 壞 used 褱 as phonetic instead.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 土 (earth radical) + 不 (bù, phonetic in simplified form)
Stroke order
坏
Examples
。
He is not a bad person.
。
My mobile phone is broken.
。
The weather is getting worse.
苹。
This apple has gone bad.
坏 (huài) means bad or broken.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 坏.
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