HSK 6 · Verbs

败坏 bàihuài “to ruin” in Chinese

Traditional 敗壞

What 败坏 means

  1. to ruin
  2. to corrupt
  3. to undermine

How to say 败坏

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale败bài4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale坏huài4th tone, falling

败坏 in a sentence

  1. 这种行为败坏了学校的名声。

    Zhè zhǒng xíngwéi bàihuài le xuéxiào de míngshēng.

    Behaviour like this damages the school’s reputation.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 一场大雨败坏了我们出游的兴致。

    Yì chǎng dàyǔ bàihuài le wǒmen chūyóu de xìngzhì.

    A downpour spoiled our mood for the outing.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 败坏 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 败 (bài) with each of its parts in a different colour
败bàito defeat
  • 贝sea shell · bèiSound part
  • 攵tap form of 攴 · pūMeaning part

攵 hints at the meaning (tap); 贝 (bèi) hints at the sound. Compare it with bài.

The character 坏 (huài) with each of its parts in a different colour
坏huàibad
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 不no · bùSound part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 不 (bù) hints at the sound. Compare it with huài.

How to write 败坏

败 8 strokes · 坏 7 strokes

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败坏 (bàihuài) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 败坏 (bàihuài). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 败坏

Words with 败

失败shībài · to fail腐败fǔbài · corrupt

Words with 坏

坏huài · bad破坏pòhuài · to destroy损坏sǔnhuài · to damage

More words: Common Verbs

熬áo · to endure扒bā · to dig up掰bāi · to break off with both hands拜访bàifǎng · to pay a visit摆脱bǎituō · to break free from巴结bājie · to fawn on伴随bànsuí · to accompany报仇bàochóu · to take revenge

FAQs

败坏 (bàihuài) means “to ruin” or “to corrupt”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàihuài: bài with a 4th tone, then huài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 败坏 is written 敗壞. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baihuai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 败坏 from the suggestions. Typing baihuai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
败坏 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.