断 (斷) duàn

1. 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)
2. 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)
3. 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')
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. duàn verb to intercept
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '断' 4)
7. duàn verb to divide
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 划分 (WN '斷' 1)
8. duàn verb to isolate
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 隔绝 (WN '斷' 2)

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• 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
• 断行(斷行) line break ; to carry out resolutely
• 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

Also contained in

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