Chinese Notes

断 (斷) duàn

duàn adverb absolutely / decidedly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Used in negative constructions in the sense of 绝对 (CED 2 '断' 2; Ci Yuan '断' 5; Kroll 2015 '断' 1a; NCCED '断' 7)
duàn verb to judge
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Middle Chinese: twanH; in the sense of 判断 (CED 2 '断' 1; Ci Yuan '斷' 4; NCCED '断' 5; Kroll 2015 '斷' twanH 1; WN '斷' 4)
duàn verb to severe / to break
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 折断 or 切 (CED 1 '断' 1; Ci Yuan '断' 1; NCCED '断' 1; Kroll 2015 '断' 1; WN '斷' 5; Unihan '斷')
duàn verb to stop
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of stopping the supply or flow of something (CED 1 '断' 2; Kroll 2015 '断' 1b; NCCED '断' 2; WN '斷' 3)
duàn verb to quit / to give up
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of stopping a habbit (CED 1 '断' 3; NCCED '断' 3)
duàn verb to intercept
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED '断' 4)
duàn verb to divide
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 划分 (WN '斷' 1)
duàn verb to isolate
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 隔绝 (WN '斷' 2)

切断(切斷) to cut off
不断(不斷) unceasing / uninterrupted
垄断(壟斷) to dominate a market / to monopolize
中断(中斷) to discontinue / to break off ; to interupt [a journey]
斩断(斬斷) to sever [communications] / to cut on two
断灭(斷滅) annihilate
源源不断(源源不斷) an unending stream
判断(判斷) to decide / to determine ; to manage / to be in charge of ; to appreciate
诊断(診斷) to diagnose
片断(片斷) section / fragment / segment
阻断(阻斷) to block / to obstruct / to intercept / to interdict
断定(斷定) to conclude / to determine
断断续续(斷斷續續) intermittent
断绝(斷絕) to sever / to break off
果断(果斷) firm / decisive / resolute ; to cut off the results of former karma
占断吉凶(占斷吉凶) to decide good or bad fortune by divination
一刀两断(一刀兩斷) to make a clean break / firm resolution to break off a relation
推断(推斷) to infer / to deduce / to predict / to extrapolate
断崖(斷崖) a steep cliff / a crag / a precipice
断限(斷限) a fixed period or era
隔断(隔斷) a partition
屏风隔断(屏風隔斷) a screen partition
处断(處斷) to judge
决断(決斷) to judge
间断(間斷) disconnected / interrupted / suspended
横断(橫斷) to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
断代(斷代) periodization
断电(斷電) a power cut
折断(折斷) to severe / to break
裁断(裁斷) to consider and decide
武断(武斷) dogmatic ; arbitrary / subjective
断层(斷層) fault

Truncated for common words