坏 · huài
rotten, spoilt, bad, broken down
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
rotten, spoilt, bad, broken down
- Mandarin
- huài
- Cantonese
- waai6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 坏 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 배
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+574F
- Radical
- 土 · 32
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 坏
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 不 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 不聲
Line 113 · ⿰土不 · 不聲 · source reference 4801140
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
壞
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- huài
- kCantonese
- waai6
- kDefinition
- rotten, spoilt, bad, broken down
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 32.4
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+574F U+58DE
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+574F
- kTGH
- 2013:616
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- pī,péi,huài 10421.110
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- huài 0488.050 · pī 0865.021
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- huài 144.030
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- huài(615)