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坏 — bad; spoiled; broken

bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; to the utmost

Pinyin
huài
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 坏: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

坏 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 坏 in the HSK syllabus: 7

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 坏huàibad; spoiled; broken; to break down; to the utmostHSK 2
  2. 坏处huàichùharm; troublesHSK 4
  3. 破坏pòhuàidestruction; damage; to wreck; to break; to destroyHSK 5
  4. 损坏sǔnhuàito damage; to injureHSK 6
  5. 败坏bàihuàito ruin; to corrupt; to undermineHSK 7–9
  6. 毁坏huǐhuàito damage; to devastate; to vandalize; damageHSK 7–9
  7. 时好时坏shíhǎo-shíhuàisometimes good, sometimes badHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.