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掰

bāi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

掰 (bāi) means "to break off or break open sth with one's hands; (fig.) to break off (a relationship)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 掰 means

1. to break off or break open sth with one's hands
2. (fig.) to break off (a relationship)

Example sentences

• 掰掰！
  Adieu!
• 慢走，掰啰！
  Goodbye, have a nice day!
• 面条下锅前要先掰成小块。
  Miàntiáo xià guō qián yào xiān bāi chéng xiǎo kuài.
  Before you put the noodles in the pot, you have to break them up into small pieces.

Words starting with 掰

• 掰开bāi kāito pull apart; to pry open with the hands
• 掰弯bāi wānto bend; (slang) to turn a straight person gay
• 掰扯bāi cheto debate; to dispute; to wrangle (dialect)
• 掰掰bāi bāibye-bye (loanword) (Tw)
• 掰直bāi zhíto straighten; (slang) to turn a gay person straight
• 掰手腕bāi shǒu wànarm wrestling
• 掰腕子bāi wàn ziarm wrestling
• 掰开揉碎bāi kāi róu suìlit. to pull apart and knead to a pulp; fig. to analyze minutely from every angle…

Words containing 掰

• 假掰gēi bāi(Taiwan) affected; pretentious; to put on a display of histrionics…
• 瞎掰xiā bāi(colloquial) to talk nonsense; to fool around
• 鸡掰jī bāi(Taiwan; vulgar) cunt (from Taiwanese 膣屄, Tai-lo pr. [tsi-bai])…
• 闹掰nào bāi(dialect) to have a falling-out (with sb)
• 分星掰两fēn xīng bāi liǎngpunctilious; clear and detailed
• 机掰jī bāivariant of 鸡掰
• 牛掰niú bāisee 牛屄

Characters that look like 掰

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 酬chóuto entertain; to repay; to return
• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem
• 酮tóngketone
• 矫jiáoused in 矫情
• 槌chuímallet; pestle; beetle (for wedging or ramming)
• 跚shānused in 蹒跚

Where 掰 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · áng–bǎ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bāi correctly.
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