Chinese symbol for “destruction”
破坏
pò huài
Traditional: 破壞
destruction; damage; to wreck; to break
The closest CC-CEDICT match for destruction is 破坏 (pò huài), defined as: destruction; damage; to wreck; to break; to destroy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “destruction”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 破坏.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 坏人 (壞人) | huài rén | bad person; villain |
| 坏事 (壞事) | huài shì | bad thing; misdeed; to ruin things |
| 损坏 (損壞) | sǔn huài | to damage; to injure |
See also: Japanese symbol for “destruction”.
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.