Translingual

Alternative forms

• 𣃔

Han character

斷 (radical 69 斤+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女戈竹一中 (VIHML), four-corner 2272₁, composition ⿰㡭斤)

1. sever, cut off
2. interrupt

References

• KangXi: page 480, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13611
• Dae Jaweon: page 841, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2028, character 13
• Unihan data for U+65B7

Chinese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 㡭 + 斤.

Pronunciation

Verb

斷

1. to break; to snap
   • 他說他的手臂斷了。 [MSC, trad.]
     他说他的手臂断了。 [MSC, simp.]

     Tā shuō tā de shǒubì duàn le. [Pinyin]

     He said that he'd broken his arm.

2. to cut off; to interrupt
   • 通話斷了。 / 通话断了。  ―  Tōnghuà duàn le.  ―  The line has gone dead.
3. to give up; to abstain from; to quit
   • 斷烟 / 断烟  ―  duàn yān  ―  to quit smoking
   • 在孩子三個月大時，她給孩子斷了奶，並開始喂奶粉。 [MSC, trad.]
     在孩子三个月大时，她给孩子断了奶，并开始喂奶粉。 [MSC, simp.]

     Zài háizǐ sān ge yuè dà shí, tā gěi háizǐ duàn le nǎi, bìng kāishǐ wèi nǎifěn. [Pinyin]

     She weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk.

Pronunciation

Definitions

斷

1. to judge; to decide; to determine
   • 判断／判斷 (“to decide, to determine”)
   • 這個案子很難斷。 / 这个案子很难断。  ―  Zhè ge ànzǐ hěn nán duàn.  ―  It is hard to judge this case.
2. (used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 断)

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Readings

• On: だん (dan)
• Kun: たつ (tatsu), ことわる (kotowaru)

Korean

Hanja

斷 • ‎(dan) (hangeul 단, revised dan, McCune-Reischauer tan, Yale tan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

斷 (đoán, đoạn)

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