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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

破烂

pòlàn

worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged

02

(coll.) rubbish; junk

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 破烂 actually appears in real sentences.

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

你一定是疯了才会喜欢上这破烂。nǐ yí dìng shì fēng le cái huì xǐ huān shàng zhè pò làn。

You've got to be some special kind of crazy to like this crap.

这些破烂,你还不丢了?zhè xiē pò làn, nǐ hái bù diū le?

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 破烂.

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

Directly before

  • 这些破烂1
  • 这破烂1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 破烂

What does 破烂 mean in Chinese?

破烂 (pòlàn) means worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged.

How do you pronounce 破烂?

破烂 is pronounced pòlàn.

Is 破烂 an HSK word?

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

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