HSK 6 · Ideas

突破 tūpò “to break through” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 突破 means

  1. to break through
  2. breakthrough
  3. to make a breakthrough
  4. to surmount (an obstacle)
  5. (sports) to break through the opponent’s defence

How to say 突破

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale突tū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale破pò4th tone, falling

突破 in a sentence

  1. 多数科学突破只不过是发现了显而易见的事。

    Duōshù kēxué tūpò zhǐbuguò shì fāxiàn le xiǎn'éryìjiàn de shì.

    Most scientific breakthroughs are nothing more than the discovery of the obvious.

    Sentence #13120026 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 突破 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 突 (tū) with each of its parts in a different colour
突tūto dash
  • 穴cave · xué
  • 犬dog · quǎn
The character 破 (pò) with each of its parts in a different colour
破pòbroken
  • 石stone · shíMeaning part
  • 皮skin · píSound part

石 hints at the meaning (stone); 皮 (pí) hints at the sound. Compare it with pò.

How to write 突破

突 9 strokes · 破 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 突破

Words with 突

突然tūrán · sudden突出tūchū · prominent冲突chōngtū · conflict

Words with 破

破pò · broken破坏pòhuài · to destroy破产pòchǎn · to go bankrupt破例pòlì · to make an exception

More words: Ideas & Concepts

统筹兼顾tǒngchóujiāngù · to plan as a whole and consider all aspects推理tuīlǐ · reasoning推论tuīlùn · inference途径tújìng · way外界wàijiè · the outside world危机wēijī · crisis威力wēilì · power威望wēiwàng · prestige

FAQs

突破 (tūpò) means “to break through” or “breakthrough”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it tūpò: tū with a 1st tone, then pò with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 突破 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tupo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 突破 from the suggestions. Typing tupo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
突破 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.