断 斷
断斷 in English
- to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly
Stroke order
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 斷, the traditional character: 断 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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X光片显示两根手指断了。
The X-ray showed two broken fingers.
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不能根据服装来判断一个人。
You can't judge a person based on clothing.
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不要根据封面来判断一本书。
Don't judge a book by its cover.
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从前文后理来推断一个字的意思。
Get the meaning of a word from its context.
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他反对垄断。
He was opposed to monopolies.
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他打断了我们的谈论。
He interrupted our conversation.
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他曾经反对垄断。
He was opposed to monopolies.