斷 — Chinese character
斷
duàn
to sever, to cut off, to interrupt
- Pinyin
- duàn
- Radical
- 69 ⽄ (Axe)
- Strokes
- 18
- Components
- 幺 幺 一 幺 幺 斤
- Formation
- ideographic — Threads 幺 severed 一 by an axe 斤
- Simplified
- 断
- Japanese
- 斷 as a kanji
斷 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 10 · Great Learning 2
- Mencius 2B.10
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi Joined Toes
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- Zhuangzi The Empire
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.