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斷

简断 · 繁斷

Mandarin · pinyin duàn

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斷: Look up this written character
断: duàn · sever, cut off; interrupt

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4 · duan4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

dyun3 · dyun6 · tyun5

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

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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

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to break; to snap; to cut
to cut off; to sever; to interrupt
to give up; to abstain from; to quit
(Hokkien) to not have; to be without; there is not

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to judge; to decide; to determine; to settle
(chiefly in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly
(Cantonese) to count in a certain unit
29th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "decisiveness" (𝌢)

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