Chinese symbol for “shabby”
破旧
pò jiù
Traditional: 破舊
shabby
The closest CC-CEDICT match for shabby is 破旧 (pò jiù), defined as: shabby.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “shabby”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 褴褛 (襤褸) | lán lǚ | (of clothes) ragged; shabby |
| 敝 | bì | my (polite); poor |
| 破敝 | pò bì | shabby; damaged |
| 败絮 (敗絮) | bài xù | ruined; broken down |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 破旧.
| 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 |
| 依旧 (依舊) | yī jiù | as before; still; to remain the same |
| 仍旧 (仍舊) | réng jiù | still (remaining); to remain (the same) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “shabby”.
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.