| 斷 | [ duàn ] to break, to snap, to cut off, to give up or abstain from sth, to judge, (usu. used in the negative) absolutely, definitely, decidedly |
| 斷乎 | [ duàn hū ] certainly |
| 斷交 | [ duàn ] to end a relationship, to break off diplomatic ties |
| 斷代 | [ duàn daì ] periodization (of history) |
| 斷句 | [ duàn jù ] to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing, to punctuate |
| 斷垣殘壁 | [ duàn yuán cán bì ] lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom), fig. scene of devastation, ruins |
| 斷壁殘垣 | [ duàn bì cán yuán ] lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom), fig. scene of devastation, ruins |
| 斷壁頹垣 | [ duàn bì tuí yuán ] lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom), fig. scene of devastation, ruins |
| 斷奶 | [ duàn naǐ ] to wean |
| 斷子絕孫 | [ duàn zǐ jué sūn ] to die without progeny, (offensive) may you die childless, may you be the last of your family line |
| 斷定 | [ duàn dìng ] to conclude, to determine, to come to a judgment |
| 斷層 | [ duàn céng ] fault (geology), CL:道[dao4],個|个[ge4], (fig.) gap, rupture (in the transmission of some skill), (tomography) cross-sectional |
| 斷層線 | [ duàn céng xiàn ] geological fault line |
| 斷崖 | [ duàn yá ] steep cliff, crag, precipice |
| 斷弦 | [ duàn xián ] widowed, lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟[qin2 se4] qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony |
| 斷想 | [ duàn xiǎng ] brief commentary |
| 斷斷續續 | [ duàn duàn xù xù ] intermittent, off and on, discontinuous, stop-go, stammering, disjointed, inarticulate |
| 斷案 | [ duàn àn ] to judge a case |
| 斷橋 | [ duàn ] The Broken Bridge (at West Lake in Hangzhou) |
| 斷檔 | [ duàn dàng ] sold out, to be out of stock |
| 斷氣 | [ duàn qì ] to stop breathing, to breathe one's last, to die, to cut the gas supply |
| 斷流 | [ duàn liú ] to run dry (of river) |
| 斷港絕潢 | [ duàn gǎng jué huáng ] to be unable to continue, to come to a dead end (idiom) |
| 斷滅 | [ duàn miè ] annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda) |
| 斷滅論 | [ duàn miè lùn ] annihilation (of soul, Sanskrit uccheda) |
| 斷然 | [ duàn rán ] resolute, definitive, categorically, absolutely |
| 斷片 | [ duàn piàn ] fragment, piece, (of a film) to break in the middle of viewing |
| 斷片兒 | [ duàn piàn ] (coll.) to suffer an alcohol-induced blackout, to be unable to recall what one did while drunk |
| 斷獄 | [ duàn yù ] to pass judgment on a legal case |
| 斷球 | [ duàn qiú ] (sports) to steal, to intercept the ball |
| 斷瓦殘垣 | [ duàn wǎ cán yuán ] the tiles are broken, the walls dilapidated |
| 斷章取義 | [ duàn zhāng qǔ yì ] to quote out of context (idiom) |
| 斷糧 | [ duàn liáng ] to run out of food |
| 斷絕 | [ duàn jué ] to sever, to break off |
| 斷線 | [ duàn xiàn ] (of a guitar, kite etc) to have a string break, (of a tradition etc) to be discontinued, (telephone or Internet connection) disconnected, cut off |
| 斷線鉗 | [ duàn xiàn qián ] bolt cutter |
| 斷線風箏 | [ duàn xiàn fēng zhēng ] a kite with cut string (idiom); fig. gone beyond recall |
| 斷續 | [ duàn xù ] intermittent |
| 斷背 | [ duàn beì ] homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山[Duan4 bei4 Shan1], a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship) |
| 斷背山 | [ duàn beì shān ] Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安[Li3 An1] |
| 斷腸 | [ duàn cháng ] heartbroken, to break one's heart |
| 斷腿 | [ duàn tuǐ ] broken leg |
| 斷行 | [ duàn háng ] line break (computing) |
| 斷行 | [ duàn xíng ] to carry out resolutely |
| 斷袖 | [ duàn xiù ] homosexual, see 斷袖之癖|断袖之癖[duan4 xiu4 zhi1 pi3] |
| 斷袖之癖 | [ duàn xiù zhī pǐ ] lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve. |
| 斷裂 | [ duàn liè ] fracture, rupture, to break apart |
| 斷裂帶 | [ duàn liè daì ] fault zone (geology) |
| 斷裂強度 | [ duàn liè qiáng dù ] rupture strength, breaking strength |
| 斷裂模數 | [ duàn liè mó shù ] modulus rupture |
| 斷言 | [ duàn yán ] to assert, assertion |
| 斷語 | [ duàn yǔ ] conclusion, judgment, verdict |
| 斷貨 | [ duàn huò ] to run out of (stock) |
| 斷路器 | [ duàn lù qì ] circuit breaker |
| 斷送 | [ duàn sòng ] to forfeit (future profit, one's life etc), ruined |
| 斷開 | [ duàn kaī ] to break, to sever, to turn off (electric switch) |
| 斷電 | [ duàn diàn ] power cut, electric power failure |
| 斷頭台 | [ duàn toú taí ] guillotine, scaffold |
| 斷食 | [ duàn shí ] to fast, hunger strike |
| 斷魂椒 | [ duàn hún ] king cobra or ghost chili (Naga jolokia) |
| 斷點 | [ duàn diǎn ] breakpoint (computing) |
| ⇒ 一刀兩斷 | [ yī daō liǎng duàn ] lit. two segments with a single cut (idiom), fig. to make a clean break (idiom) |
| ⇒ 不斷 | [ bù duàn ] unceasing, uninterrupted, continuous, constant |
| ⇒ 中斷 | [ zhōng duàn ] to cut short, to break off, to discontinue, to interrupt |
| ⇒ 了斷 | [ duàn ] to bring to a conclusion, to settle (a dispute), to do away with (oneself), to break off (a relationship), resolution (of a problem) |
| ⇒ 傷筋斷骨 | [ shāng jīn duàn gǔ ] to suffer serious injury (idiom) |
| ⇒ 優柔寡斷 | [ yoū roú guǎ duàn ] indecisive, irresolute |
| ⇒ 公斷 | [ gōng duàn ] arbitration (law) |
| ⇒ 切斷 | [ qiē duàn ] to cut off, to sever |
| ⇒ 判斷 | [ pàn duàn ] to judge, to determine, judgment |
| ⇒ 判斷力 | [ pàn duàn lì ] ability to judge, judgment |
| ⇒ 判斷語 | [ pàn duàn yǔ ] predicate |
| ⇒ 剪斷 | [ jiǎn duàn ] to cut, to snip |
| ⇒ 割斷 | [ gē duàn ] to cut off, to sever |
| ⇒ 割袍斷義 | [ gē paó duàn yì ] to rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom), to break all friendly ties |
| ⇒ 反壟斷 | [ fǎn lǒng duàn ] anti-trust legislation, anti-monopoly |
| ⇒ 反壟斷法 | [ fǎn lǒng duàn fǎ ] anti-trust law, legislation again monopolies |
| ⇒ 喝斷片 | [ hē duàn piàn ] to get blackout drunk (slang) |
| ⇒ 壟斷 | [ lǒng duàn ] to enjoy market dominance, to monopolize |
| ⇒ 壟斷販賣 | [ lǒng duàn fàn maì ] monopoly |
| ⇒ 多謀善斷 | [ duō moú shàn duàn ] resourceful and decisive, resolute and sagacious |
| ⇒ 夾斷 | [ jiā duàn ] to nip (i.e. cut short), to pinch off |
| ⇒ 妄斷 | [ wàng duàn ] to jump to an unfounded conclusion |
| ⇒ 寡頭壟斷 | [ guǎ toú lǒng duàn ] oligopoly |
| ⇒ 審斷 | [ shěn duàn ] to examine |
| ⇒ 專斷 | [ zhuān duàn ] to act arbitrarily, to make decisions without consulting others |
| ⇒ 快刀斷亂麻 | [ daō duàn luàn má ] lit. quick sword cuts through tangled hemp (idiom); decisive action in a complex situation, cutting the Gordian knot |
| ⇒ 恩斷義絕 | [ ēn duàn yì jué ] to split up, to break all ties |
| ⇒ 應機立斷 | [ yìng jī lì duàn ] to act on an opportunity (idiom); to take prompt advantage of a situation |
| ⇒ 戒斷 | [ jiè duàn ] withdrawal (from drugs) |
| ⇒ 截斷 | [ jié duàn ] to break or cut in two, to sever, to cut off, (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc), to interrupt, (math.) to truncate |
| ⇒ 打斷 | [ dǎ duàn ] to interrupt, to break off, to break (a bone) |
| ⇒ 投鞭斷流 | [ toú biān duàn liú ] arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army |
| ⇒ 折斷 | [ zhé duàn ] to snap sth off, to break |
| ⇒ 拗斷 | [ aǒ duàn ] to break by twisting |
| ⇒ 掐斷 | [ qiā duàn ] to nip off (with fingernails etc), (fig.) to cut off (supply etc), to disconnect |
| ⇒ 掛斷 | [ guà duàn ] to hang up (a phone) |
| ⇒ 接連不斷 | [ jiē lián bù duàn ] in unbroken succession (idiom) |
| ⇒ 推斷 | [ tuī duàn ] to infer, to deduce, to predict, to extrapolate |
| ⇒ 摔斷 | [ duàn ] to fall and break, to break (bones) by falling |
| ⇒ 擅斷 | [ shàn duàn ] arbitrary |
| ⇒ 斬斷 | [ zhǎn duàn ] to cut off, to chop sth in half |
| ⇒ 斷斷續續 | [ duàn duàn xù xù ] intermittent, off and on, discontinuous, stop-go, stammering, disjointed, inarticulate |
| ⇒ 時斷時續 | [ shí duàn shí xù ] stopping and starting, intermittent, sporadic, on and off |
| ⇒ 果斷 | [ guǒ duàn ] firm, decisive |
| ⇒ 柔腸寸斷 | [ roú cháng cùn duàn ] lit. to feel as if one's intestines have been cut short, broken-hearted (idiom) |
| ⇒ 橫斷 | [ héng duàn ] to cross (a road, an ocean etc), to cut across |
| ⇒ 橫斷山脈 | [ héng duàn shān maì ] Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet |
| ⇒ 橫斷步道 | [ héng duàn bù daò ] pedestrian crossing |
| ⇒ 橫斷物 | [ héng duàn wù ] transverse object |
| ⇒ 橫斷面 | [ héng duàn miàn ] horizontal section |
| ⇒ 正斷層 | [ zhèng duàn céng ] normal fault (geology) |
| ⇒ 正電子斷層 | [ zhèng diàn zǐ duàn céng ] PET, positron emission tomography (medical imaging method) |
| ⇒ 正電子照射斷層攝影 | [ zhèng diàn zǐ zhaò shè duàn céng shè yǐng ] positrion emission tomography (PET) |
| ⇒ 正電子發射斷層照相術 | [ zhèng diàn zǐ fā shè duàn céng zhaò xiāng shù ] positron emission tomography (PET) |
| ⇒ 正電子發射計算機斷層 | [ zhèng diàn zǐ fā shè jì suàn jī duàn céng ] PET, positron emission tomography (medical imaging method) |
| ⇒ 武斷 | [ wǔ duàn ] arbitrary, subjective, dogmatic |
| ⇒ 殘垣斷壁 | [ cán yuán duàn bì ] lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom), fig. scene of devastation, ruins |
| ⇒ 決斷 | [ jué duàn ] to make a decision, resolution, decisiveness, resolute |
| ⇒ 清官難斷家務事 | [ qīng guān nán duàn jiā wù shì ] even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb) |
| ⇒ 源源不斷 | [ yuán yuán bù duàn ] a steady flow (idiom); an unending stream |
| ⇒ 熔斷 | [ róng duàn ] (of fuse wire) to melt, to blow |
| ⇒ 熔斷機制 | [ róng duàn jī zhì ] (finance) trading curb, circuit breaker |
| ⇒ 熔斷絲 | [ róng duàn sī ] fuse wire |
| ⇒ 片斷 | [ piàn duàn ] section, fragment, segment |
| ⇒ 獨斷 | [ dú duàn ] to decide alone without consultation, arbitrary, dictatorial |
| ⇒ 獨斷專行 | [ dú duàn zhuān xíng ] to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action, a law unto oneself |
| ⇒ 獨斷獨行 | [ dú duàn dú xíng ] to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action, a law unto oneself |
| ⇒ 當斷則斷 | [ dāng duàn zé duàn ] to make a decision when it's time to decide |
| ⇒ 當斷則斷 | [ dāng duàn zé duàn ] to make a decision when it's time to decide |
| ⇒ 當斷即斷 | [ dāng duàn jí duàn ] not to delay making a decision when a decision is needed |
| ⇒ 當斷即斷 | [ dāng duàn jí duàn ] not to delay making a decision when a decision is needed |
| ⇒ 當機立斷 | [ dāng jī lì duàn ] to make prompt decisions (idiom) |
| ⇒ 眼穿腸斷 | [ yǎn chuān cháng duàn ] waiting anxiously (idiom) |
| ⇒ 砍斷 | [ kǎn duàn ] to chop off |
| ⇒ 縱斷面 | [ zòng duàn miàn ] vertical section, longitudinal section |
| ⇒ 聖安地列斯斷層 | [ shèng ān de liè sī duàn céng ] San Andreas Fault, California, also written 聖安德列斯斷層|圣安德列斯断层 |
| ⇒ 聖安德列斯斷層 | [ shèng ān dé liè sī duàn céng ] San Andreas Fault, California |
| ⇒ 聽斷 | [ tīng duàn ] to judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court), to hear and decide |
| ⇒ 肝腸寸斷 | [ gān cháng cùn duàn ] lit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom), fig. grief-stricken |
| ⇒ 臆斷 | [ yì duàn ] to assume, assumption |
| ⇒ 自行了斷 | [ zì xíng duàn ] to take one's life |
| ⇒ 英明果斷 | [ yīng míng guǒ duàn ] wise and resolute |
| ⇒ 藕斷絲連 | [ oǔ duàn sī lián ] lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another |
| ⇒ 衝斷層 | [ chōng duàn céng ] thrust fault (geology), compression fault |
| ⇒ 裁斷 | [ caí duàn ] to consider and decide |
| ⇒ 計算機斷層 | [ jì suàn jī duàn céng ] CT, computed tomography (medical imaging method) |
| ⇒ 診斷 | [ zhěn duàn ] diagnosis, to diagnose |
| ⇒ 評斷 | [ píng duàn ] to judge |
| ⇒ 詞彙判斷 | [ cí huì pàn duàn ] lexical decision |
| ⇒ 詞彙判斷任務 | [ cí huì pàn duàn rèn wu ] lexical decision task (psychology) |
| ⇒ 詞彙判斷作業 | [ cí huì pàn duàn zuò yè ] lexical decision task |
| ⇒ 詞彙判斷法 | [ cí huì pàn duàn fǎ ] lexical decision task |
| ⇒ 論斷 | [ lùn duàn ] to infer, to judge, inference, judgment, conclusion |
| ⇒ 識文斷字 | [ shí wén duàn zì ] literate, a cultured person |
| ⇒ 買斷 | [ maǐ duàn ] to buy out, buyout, severance |
| ⇒ 走向斷層 | [ zoǔ xiàng duàn céng ] strike fault (geology) |
| ⇒ 走向滑動斷層 | [ zoǔ xiàng huá dòng duàn céng ] strike-slip fault (geology), fault line where the two sides slide horizontally past one another |
| ⇒ 跌斷 | [ diē duàn ] to fall and fracture (a leg, vertebra etc) |
| ⇒ 轉換斷層 | [ zhuǎn huàn duàn céng ] transform fault (geology) |
| ⇒ 逆斷層 | [ nì duàn céng ] reverse fault (geology), compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees |
| ⇒ 連續不斷 | [ lián xù bù duàn ] continuous, unceasing |
| ⇒ 逸塵斷鞅 | [ yì chén duàn yāng ] lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness, fig. to ride like the wind (idiom) |
| ⇒ 遮斷 | [ zhē duàn ] to cut off, to interrupt, to prevent access |
| ⇒ 長流水，不斷線 | [ cháng liú shuǐ bù duàn xiàn ] continuous and patient effort (idiom) |
| ⇒ 間斷 | [ jiàn duàn ] disconnected, interrupted, suspended, a gap, a break |
| ⇒ 關斷 | [ guān duàn ] to shut off |
| ⇒ 阻斷 | [ zǔ duàn ] to block, to obstruct, to intercept, to interdict |
| ⇒ 隔斷 | [ gé duàn ] partition, to stand between, wall or fence serving as partition |
| ⇒ 隔斷板 | [ gé duàn bǎn ] partition board |
| ⇒ 電腦斷層掃描 | [ diàn naǒ duàn céng saǒ ] CAT scan, CT scan |
| ⇒ 頹垣斷壁 | [ tuí yuán duàn bì ] lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom), fig. scene of devastation, ruins |
| ⇒ 風波不斷 | [ fēng bō bù duàn ] constantly in turmoil, crisis after crisis |
| ⇒ 點斷式 | [ diǎn duàn shì ] designed to be torn off along a line of perforations |
| ⇒ 龍門山斷層 | [ lóng mén shān duàn céng ] Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin |
| ⇒ 龍門斷層 | [ lóng mén duàn céng ] Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin |