断 duàn
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 斤 — axe
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
断绝
duànjué
to cut off; to sever
Characters in this word
绝 jué
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- Made of
- 纟 silk 色 color, tint, hue, shade
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 他们决定断绝与污染供应商的合作，以维护企业的基本底线。 Tāmen juédìng duànjué yǔ wūrǎn gōngyìngshāng de hézuò, yǐ wéihù qǐyè de jīběn dǐxiàn. They decided to cut off cooperation with the polluting supplier in order to uphold the company's basic bottom line.
- 他和家里断绝了联系，一个人去了外地。 Tā hé jiālǐ duànjué le liánxì, yí gè rén qù le wàidì. He cut off contact with his family and went alone to another place.
- 大雪封山，村子和外界的交通完全断绝了。 Dàxuě fēng shān, cūnzi hé wàijiè de jiāotōng wánquán duànjué le. Heavy snow closed the mountain, and the village's transport links to the outside were completely cut off.
Related words
- 不断 búduàn continuously; nonstop
- 断 duàn to break; to cut off
- 判断 pànduàn to judge
- 诊断 zhěnduàn to diagnose; diagnosis
- 中断 zhōngduàn to interrupt; to break off
- 当机立断 dāngjīlìduàn to make a prompt decision; to act decisively
- 断定 duàndìng to conclude; to assert
- 断断续续 duànduànxùxù intermittent; off and on
- 断裂 duànliè to fracture; to break
- 断然 duànrán firm; resolute; absolutely
- 断章取义 duànzhāngqǔyì to quote out of context; to distort by taking out of context
- 果断 guǒduàn decisive; resolute