Chinese symbol for “dilapidated”
破烂
pò làn
Traditional: 破爛
worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged; (coll.) rubbish; junk
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dilapidated is 破烂 (pò làn), defined as: worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged; (coll.) rubbish; junk.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “dilapidated”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 残败 (殘敗) | cán bài | dilapidated; in ruins |
| 颓坏 (頹壞) | tuí huài | dilapidated; decrepit |
| 残破 (殘破) | cán pò | broken; dilapidated |
| 年久失修 | nián jiǔ shī xiū | old and in a state of disrepair (idiom); dilapidated |
| 颓圮 (頹圮) | tuí pǐ | to collapse; dilapidated |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 破烂.
| 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 |
| 灿烂 (燦爛) | càn làn | to glitter; brilliant |
| 腐烂 (腐爛) | fǔ làn | to rot; to putrefy |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dilapidated”.
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.