断 duàn

sever, cut off; interrupt

HSK 4 #434

DEFINITIONS

  • sever, cut off
  • interrupt
  • to break
  • to snap
  • to cut off
  • to give up or abstain from sth
  • to judge
  • (usu. used in the negative) absolutely
  • definitely
  • decidedly

STROKES

WORDS

断线风筝 duàn xiàn fēng zhēng a kite with cut string (idiom); fig. gone beyond recall
断续 duàn xù intermittent
断背 duàn bèi homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山[Duan4 bei4 Shan1], a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship)
断背山 duàn bèi shān Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安[Li3 An1]
断肠 duàn cháng heartbroken; to break one's heart
断腿 duàn tuǐ broken leg
断行 duàn háng line break (computing)
断行 duàn xíng to carry out resolutely
断袖 duàn xiù homosexual; see 斷袖之癖|断袖之癖[duan4 xiu4 zhi1 pi3]
断袖之癖 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.
断裂强度 duàn liè qiáng dù rupture strength; breaking strength
断裂模数 duàn liè mó shù modulus rupture
断货 duàn huò to run out of (stock)
断路器 duàn lù qì circuit breaker
断食 duàn shí to fast; hunger strike
断魂椒 duàn hún jiāo king cobra or ghost chili (Naga jolokia)
时断时续 shí duàn shí xù stopping and starting; intermittent; sporadic; on and off
柔肠寸断 róu cháng cùn duàn lit. to feel as if one's intestines have been cut short; broken-hearted (idiom)
横断 héng duàn to cross (a road, an ocean etc); to cut across
横断山脉 héng duàn shān mài Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet
横断步道 héng duàn bù dào pedestrian crossing
横断物 héng duàn wù transverse object
正断层 zhèng duàn céng normal fault (geology)
正电子断层 zhèng diàn zǐ duàn céng PET, positron emission tomography (medical imaging method)
正电子照射断层摄影 zhèng diàn zǐ zhào shè duàn céng shè yǐng positrion emission tomography (PET)
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