破

Information about character(s)

Radical: 石
Radical Strokes: 5
Additional Strokes: 5
Total Strokes: 10

Pronunciation

Pinyin: pò
Cantonese: po3
JapaneseKun: YABURU YABURERU
JapaneseOn: HA
Korean: PHA
Vietnamese: phá

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: break, ruin, destroy; rout

CE-Dict: broken/damaged/worn out/to break, split or cleave/to get rid of/to destroy/to break with/to defeat/to capture (a city etc)/to expose the truth of

Soothill: To break, disrupt, destroy, cause schism; solve, disprove, refute, negate.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.not intact (including broken, damaged, torn or worn-out)
2.to break apart; to cleave
3.to defeat
4.to lay bare

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: break; breakable; broken; cleave; damaged; defeat; destroy; torn; worn-out

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: break; breakable; broken; cleave; damaged; defeat; destroy; torn; worn-out

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《石部》破石碎也。从石皮聲。

康熙字典文字版 【午集下】【石字部】破
〔古文〕𡲠【唐韻】【集韻】【韻會】𠀤普過切，頗去聲。壞也，剖也，裂也，劈也，坼也。【正字通】凡物壞，及行師敗其軍，奪其地，皆曰破。說文專訓石碎，泥。　又【韻會】曲破，樂名。樂書云：唐明皇天寶，樂章多以邊地名曲。如伊州，甘州之類。曲終繁聲，名爲入破。　又【字彙補】披義切，音媲壞也。　又叶博屑切，音鷩。【呂覽】膏以明自煎，鐸以聲自穴。翠以羽殃身，蚌以珠致破。

Foguang Dictionary of Buddhism (佛光大辭典) 　因明用語。敵者（問難者）就立者（立論者）所立之三支，指斥其過誤，稱為破。己所用以破斥他人主張之言論，確有破斥之力量，能將對方之立論摧毀者，稱為能破。他人有所主張時，若發現其理論不圓滿，證明不夠確切，于實質與形式上有過失時，指出其過失所在，摧毀其立論，便成能破。故能破即為破邪。為與‘似能破’分別起見，亦稱真能破。能破時，破者為‘自’，原立論者與證義者為‘他’。能破使原立論者和證義者了悟原立論之是非，故有‘悟他’之作用。﹝因明入正理論悟他門淺釋﹞（參閱‘似能破’2774、‘真能破’4218）

Buddhism words and phrases refute, disprove, negate, solve

CF-Dict: usé/déchiré/mauvais/ fendre/vaincre/détruire

Han-De-Dict: aufheben, abbrechen, zerbrechen; beschädigt, abgenutzt, kaputt (u.E.) (V)