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Mythic Mandarin

破案 (pò àn): meaning and stroke order

破案 (pò àn) means to solve a criminal case.

破案

Simplified
破案
Traditional
破案 (same form)
Pinyin
pò àn

Stroke order of 破案

破

  • pò broken; damaged
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

案

  • àn (legal) case; incident
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 破案

  1. pò àn
    • to solve a criminal case

Radicals of the characters

破
Radical 石 (Kangxi radical 112) · 10 strokes · 石 on the left, 皮 on the right
案
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 10 strokes · 安 on top, 木 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

破案 in our stories

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  • 宋慈把这个案子写进书里，不是为了讲一个精彩的故事，而是想告诉后来的官员：破案靠的并非口供和刑罚，而是仔细的观察和证据。

    Sòng Cí bǎ zhè gè ànzi xiě jìn shū lǐ bú shì wèile jiǎng yí gè jīngcǎi de gùshi érshì xiǎng gàosu hòulái de guānyuán pò'àn kào de bìngfēi kǒugòng hé xíngfá érshì zǐxì de guānchá hé zhèngjù

    Song Ci put this case in his book not to tell an exciting story but to teach later officials that solving a case depends not on confessions and punishment but on careful observation and evidence.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 破案

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).