段 duàn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 殳 — tool, weapon
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
段落
duànluò
paragraph; section
Characters in this word
落 luò
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- Made of
- 艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 洛 a river in the Shanxi province
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这篇论文的段落安排很清楚，每一节都围绕同一个论点展开。 Zhè piān lùnwén de duànluò ānpái hěn qīngchu, měi yì jié dōu wéirào tóng yí gè lùndiǎn zhǎnkāi. The paragraph arrangement of this paper is very clear, and each section develops around the same argument.
- 请把这篇文章分成三个段落。 Qǐng bǎ zhè piān wénzhāng fēn chéng sān ge duànluò. Please divide this article into three paragraphs.
- 老师在每个段落的开头都做了记号。 Lǎoshī zài měi ge duànluò de kāitóu dōu zuò le jìhao. The teacher marked the beginning of each paragraph.
Related words
- 段 duàn section; period
- 阶段 jiēduàn stage
- 手段 shǒuduàn means, method
- 地段 dìduàn location; section of land
- 路段 lùduàn section of road
- 片段 piànduàn fragment; excerpt; segment
- 时段 shíduàn period of time; time slot
- 落后 luòhòu to fall behind
- 降落 jiàngluò to land
- 落 luò to fall; to set
- 落 là to leave out; to miss
- 落实 luòshí to carry out