段 — Chinese character
段
duàn
section, piece, division
- Pinyin
- duàn
- Radical
- 79 ⽎ (Weapon)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 殳
- Formation
- ideographic — A hand using a chisel 殳 to cut stone
- Japanese
- 段 as a kanji
Common words with 段
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阶段 (階段) | jiē duàn | stage; section |
| 手段 | shǒu duàn | method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability |
| 片段 | piàn duàn | fragment (of speech etc); extract (from book etc) |
| 时段 (時段) | shí duàn | time interval; work shift |
| 段落 | duàn luò | phase; time interval |
| 现阶段 (現階段) | xiàn jiē duàn | at the present stage |
| 路段 | lù duàn | stretch of road; section of a highway or railway |
| 地段 | dì duàn | section; district |
| 波段 | bō duàn | wave band |
| 中段 | zhōng duàn | middle section; middle period; middle area; mid- |
| 不择手段 (不擇手段) | bù zé shǒu duàn | by fair means or foul; by hook or by crook |
| 段子 | duàn zi | item of storytelling or performed dialogue (folk arts); sketch |
English words written with 段
段 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
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.