断

斷traditional

HSK 5#1707 by frequencyradical 斤

duàn["v","vn"]

to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly

Examples

我的指甲断了。

I broke a nail.

马倒下时脖子断了。

The horse broke its neck when it fell.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.