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Chinese symbol for “crushed”

破败不堪
pò bài bù kān
Traditional: 破敗不堪
crushed; utterly defeated

The closest CC-CEDICT match for crushed is 破败不堪 (pò bài bù kān), defined as: crushed; utterly defeated.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

破 pò
to break, to rout; to ruin, to destroy
radical 112 ⽯ · 10 strokes
败 bài
failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
radical 154 ⾙ · 8 strokes
不 bù
no, not, un-; negative prefix
radical 1 ⼀ · 4 strokes
堪 kān
to endure; adequate, capable, worthy
radical 32 ⼟ · 12 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “crushed”

WordPinyinMeaning
挠败 (撓敗)náo bàidefeated; routed

Related words

Other words that share a character with 破败不堪.

WordPinyinMeaning
破坏 (破壞)pò huàidestruction; damage
突破tū pòto break through; to make a breakthrough
打破dǎ pòto break; to smash
破产 (破產)pò chǎnto go bankrupt; to become impoverished
破解pò jiěto break (a bond, constraint etc); to explain
破裂pò lièto burst; to rupture; (of a relationship etc) to break down
失败 (失敗)shī bàito be defeated; to lose
腐败 (腐敗)fǔ bàicorruption; to corrupt
不是bù shìno; is not
不堪bù kāncannot bear; cannot stand

See also: Japanese symbol for “crushed”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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