打破
Meaning
- to break; to smash
Example sentence
是谁把窗打破了？
Who broke the window?
Characters in 打破
- 打 dǎ a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate")
- 破 pò broken
打 to strike plus 破, broken. Striking to breaking, and it is used of records as well as objects.