pò
break
Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 皮 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
pò
break, ruin, destroy; rout; broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; 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
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pʰˤaj-s | phaH | pò | break (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 67.4035% of movies
620th most common character in movies
604th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+7834 |
Shuowen | “破，石碎也。从石，皮聲。” |
Sources
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