Chinese symbol for “fracture”
断裂
duàn liè
Traditional: 斷裂
fracture; rupture; to break apart
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fracture is 断裂 (duàn liè), defined as: fracture; rupture; to break apart.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “fracture”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 折 | zhé | to break; to fracture |
| 裂隙 | liè xì | gap; slit; crack; crevice; fracture |
| 骨折 | gǔ zhé | to suffer a fracture; (of a bone) to break |
| 锉 (剉) | cuò | (literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut |
| 骨裂 | gǔ liè | bone fracture; (of a bone) to fracture |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 断裂.
| 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 |
| 分裂 | fēn liè | to split up; to divide |
| 破裂 | pò liè | to burst; to rupture; (of a relationship etc) to break down |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fracture”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.