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.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “crushed”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 破败不堪.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破坏 (破壞) | pò huài | destruction; damage |
| 突破 | tū pò | to break through; to make a breakthrough |
| 打破 | dǎ pò | to break; to smash |
| 破产 (破產) | pò chǎn | to go bankrupt; to become impoverished |
| 破解 | pò jiě | to break (a bond, constraint etc); to explain |
| 破裂 | pò liè | to burst; to rupture; (of a relationship etc) to break down |
| 失败 (失敗) | shī bài | to be defeated; to lose |
| 腐败 (腐敗) | fǔ bài | corruption; to corrupt |
| 不是 | bù shì | no; is not |
| 不堪 | bù kān | cannot 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.