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断

duàn

HSK 4 Character Traditional 斷

What 断 means

1. to break
2. to snap
3. to cut off
4. to give up or abstain from sth
5. to judge
6. (usu. used in the negative) absolutely
7. definitely
8. decidedly

Example sentences

• 他反对垄断。
  He was opposed to monopolies.
• 她打断了我。
  She interrupted me.
• 我做事该果断。
  Wǒ zuòshì gāi guǒduàn.
  I should stop procrastinating.
• 我摔断了右腿。
  I broke my right leg.
• 绳子被拉断了。
  The rope broke under the strain.
• 我的手臂断了。
  I broke my arm.

Words starting with 断

• 断定duàn dìngto conclude; to determine; to come to a judgment
• 断断续续duàn duàn xù xùintermittent; off and on; discontinuous
• 断绝duàn juéto sever; to break off
• 断然duàn ránresolute; definitive; categorically
• 断裂duàn lièfracture; rupture; to break apart
• 断言duàn yánto assert; assertion
• 断送duàn sòngto forfeit (future profit, one's life etc); ruined
• 断电duàn diànto experience a power outage; to have a power failure
• 断肠duàn chángheartbroken; to break one's heart
• 断线duàn xiàn(of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break; (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued…
• 断气duàn qìto stop breathing; to breathe one's last; to die
• 断层duàn céng(geology) fault; (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill)…
• 断桥Duàn QiáoThe Broken Bridge (at West Lake in Hangzhou)
• 断开duàn kāito break; to sever; to turn off (electric switch)
• 断奶duàn nǎito wean
• 断续duàn xùintermittent
• 断章取义duàn zhāng qǔ yì(idiom) to quote out of context
• 断头台duàn tóu táiguillotine; scaffold
• 断交duàn jiāoto end a relationship; to break off diplomatic ties
• 断代duàn dàiperiodization (of history)
• 断供duàn gōngto default on a mortgage; to stop supplying sth
• 断想duàn xiǎngbrief commentary
• 断案duàn ànto judge a case
• 断流duàn liúto run dry (of river)

Words containing 断

• 不断bù duànunceasing; uninterrupted; continuous
• 判断pàn duànto judge; to determine; judgment
• 诊断zhěn duànto diagnose
• 垄断lǒng duànto monopolize
• 中断zhōng duànto cut short; to break off; to discontinue
• 果断guǒ duànfirm; decisive
• 片断piàn duànsection; fragment; segment
• 打断dǎ duànto interrupt; to break off; to break (a bone)
• 推断tuī duànto infer; to deduce; to predict
• 间断jiàn duàndisconnected; interrupted; suspended
• 挂断guà duànto hang up (a phone)
• 切断qiē duànto cut off; to sever
• 折断zhé duànto snap sth off; to break
• 源源不断yuán yuán bù duàn(idiom) in an unending stream; continuous
• 割断gē duànto cut off; to sever
• 买断mǎi duànto buy out; buyout; severance
• 论断lùn duànto infer; to judge; inference
• 决断jué duànto make a decision; resolution; decisiveness
• 判断力pàn duàn lìability to judge; judgment
• 隔断gé duànpartition; to stand between; wall or fence serving as partition
• 了断liǎo duànto bring to a conclusion; to resolve (a dispute etc)…
• 截断jié duànto break or cut in two; to sever; to cut off
• 阻断zǔ duànto block; to obstruct; to intercept
• 斩断zhǎn duànto cut off; to chop sth in half

Characters that look like 断

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

• 斯sī(phonetic); this
• 鹅égoose
• 惭cánashamed
• 铆mǎoto fasten with a rivet; to rivet; to hammer in a rivet…
• 蛎lìoyster
• 弼bìto assist

Sounds the same

Read duàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 段paragraph; section; segment
• 锻to forge; to discipline; wrought
• 缎satin
• 煅to calcine; variant of 锻
• 椴Chinese linden (Tilia chinensis)
• 腶dried meat
• 簖bamboo fish trap
• 塅large area of flat terrain (used in place names)
• 毈infertile egg
• 碫coarse stone (used for whetstone)