断 — Chinese character
断
duàn
to sever, to cut off, to interrupt
- Pinyin
- duàn
- Radical
- 69 ⽄ (Axe)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 米 斤
- Formation
- ideographic — Using an axe 斤 to harvest grain 米
- Traditional
- 斷
- Japanese
- 断 as a kanji
Common words with 断
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不断 (不斷) | bù duàn | unceasing; uninterrupted |
| 判断 (判斷) | pàn duàn | to judge; to determine; judgment |
| 垄断 (壟斷) | lǒng duàn | to monopolize |
| 中断 (中斷) | zhōng duàn | to cut short; to break off |
| 诊断 (診斷) | zhěn duàn | to diagnose |
| 切断 (切斷) | qiē duàn | to cut off; to sever |
| 打断 (打斷) | dǎ duàn | to interrupt; to break off |
| 果断 (果斷) | guǒ duàn | firm; decisive |
| 推断 (推斷) | tuī duàn | to infer; to deduce |
| 断层 (斷層) | duàn céng | (geology) fault (CL:道 (dào)); (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill) |
| 断裂 (斷裂) | duàn liè | fracture; rupture |
| 断定 (斷定) | duàn dìng | to conclude; to determine |
English words written with 断
- judge
- suspended
- withdrawal
- arbitrary
- interrupted
- definitive
- fracture
- interrupt
- disconnected
- diagnose
- intermittent
- decidedly
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.