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打斷

简打断 · 繁打斷

Mandarin · pinyin dǎ duàn

to interrupt
to break off
to break (a bone)

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打: dǎ · strike, hit, beat; fight; attack
斷: Look up this written character
断: duàn · sever, cut off; interrupt

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3–4 · da3 duan4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

daa2 tyun5

Cantonese word readings for 打斷. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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verb

to break (e.g. a bone)
to interrupt; to break off; to cut short

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