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败坏

bài huài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 敗壞

败坏 (bài huài) means "to ruin; to corrupt; to undermine". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 败坏 means

1. to ruin
2. to corrupt
3. to undermine

The characters in 败坏

• 败bàito defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent)
• 坏huàibad; spoiled; broken

Words containing 败坏

• 气急败坏qì jí bài huàiflustered and exasperated; utterly discomfited
• 道德败坏dào dé bài huàivice; immorality; moral turpitude

Where 败坏 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bài huài correctly.
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