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中断

zhōng duàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 中斷

中断 (zhōng duàn) means "to cut short". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 中断 means

1. to cut short
2. to break off
3. to discontinue
4. to interrupt

The characters in 中断

• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 断duànto break; to snap; to cut off

Sounds the same

Read zhōng duàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 中段middle section; middle period; middle area; mid-

Where 中断 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhì–zhōng (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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