Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 斷

Modern (Beijing) reading: duàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: dōnʔ

Classic Old Chinese: dwā́n

Western Han Chinese: dwā́n

Eastern Han Chinese: dwā́n

Early Postclassic Chinese: dwā́n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: dwā́n

Late Postclassic Chinese: dwā́n

Middle Chinese: dwấn

English meaning : to cut up, cut off; decide

Russian meaning[s]: 1) разрубить; переломить; разорвать; 2) прекратить (подачу); отказать в...; отказаться от...; 3) решить, определить; присудить к...; 4) решительно, определенно; категорически; перед отрицанием отнюдь не..., ни в коем случае; категорически не...

Comments: Also read *tōnʔ, MC twấn; *tōnʔ-s, MC twần, Viet. d_oán; *dōnʔ-s, MC dwần. See also 段 *dōnʔ-s. An older loan from the same source is Viet. d_ốn 'to cut down, chop down'. For *d- cf. Fuzhou tuaŋ⁶; Siam. dhɔ̄́n (*dōn).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 69

Four-angle index: 1980

Karlgren code: 0170 a

Vietnamese reading: d_oạn

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