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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

划破

huápò

to cut open

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to cut open

02

to rip

03

to streak across (lightning, meteor etc)

04

to pierce (scream, searchlight etc)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 划破 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 划破 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

一道闪电划破天空。yī dào shǎn diàn huà pò tiān kōng。

A sharp crack of thunder split the sky.

闪电划破天空。shǎn diàn huà pò tiān kōng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 划破.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 划破.

Directly before

  • 闪电划破2

Directly after

  • 划破天空2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 划破

What does 划破 mean in Chinese?

划破 (huápò) means to cut open.

How do you pronounce 划破?

划破 is pronounced huápò.

Is 划破 an HSK word?

划破 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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