| 破缺 | pò quē | breaking |  |
| 丛生 | cóng shēng | growing as a thicket / overgrown / breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc) | |
| 转折点 | zhuǎn zhé diǎn | turning point / breaking point |  |
| 咔嚓 | kā chā | (onom.) breaking or snapping / (coll.) cut it out / stop it / also written 喀嚓[ka1 cha1] | |
| 拐点 | guǎi diǎn | turning point / breaking point / inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign) | |
| 喀嚓 | kā chā | (onom.) breaking or snapping | |
| 插播 | chā bō | to interrupt (a radio or TV program) with a commercial insert, breaking news etc / to put a call on hold | |
| 背信弃义 | bèi xìn qì yì | breaking faith and abandoning right (idiom) / to betray / treachery / perfidy | |
| 异化作用 | yì huà zuò yòng | catabolism (biology) / metabolic breaking down and waste disposal / dissimilation | |
| 出水芙蓉 | chū shuǐ fú róng | as a lotus flower breaking the surface (idiom) / surpassingly beautiful (of young lady's face or old gentleman's calligraphy) | |
| 投鼠忌器 | tóu shǔ jì qì | lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom) / to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents | |
| 逸尘断鞅 | yì chén duàn yāng | lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness / fig. to ride like the wind (idiom) | |
| 破土典礼 | pò tǔ diǎn lǐ | ground breaking ceremony | |
| 倒仓 | dǎo cāng | to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it) / voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty) | |
| 分解代谢 | fēn jiě dài xiè | catabolism (biology) / metabolic breaking down and waste disposal / dissimilation | |
| 对称破缺 | duì chèn pò quē | symmetry breaking (physics) | |
| 自发对称破缺 | zì fā duì chèn pò quē | spontaneous symmetry breaking (physics) | |
| 均裂 | jūn liè | homolytic breaking | |
| 打破沉默 | | Breaking the Silence | |
| 国际打破语言障碍委员会 | | International Committee for Breaking the Language Barrier | |
| 断裂强度 | duàn liè qiáng dù | rupture strength / breaking strength | |
| 嚗 |  bó | (onom.) sound of sth splitting or breaking apart / sound of an object falling to the ground / a cry of rage / Taiwan pr. [bo1] | |
| 变化球 | biàn huà qiú | (baseball) breaking ball / (fig.) curveball / unexpected turn of events | |
