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HSK
unceasing / uninterrupted / continuous / constant
HSK 3
(idiom) in an unending stream; continuous
HSK 7-9
to cut short / to break off / to discontinue / to interrupt
HSK 5
arbitration (law)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *斷* | 斷* | *斷
to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly
HSK 3
(idiom) to make a clean break with; to have nothing more to do with
to act arbitrarily / to make decisions without consulting others
to cut off; to sever
HSK 7-9
to judge / to determine / judgment
HSK 3
to diagnose
HSK 5
continuous / unceasing
to bring to a conclusion / to settle (a dispute) / to do away with (oneself) / to break off (a relationship) / resolution (of a problem)
to make a decision / resolution / decisiveness / resolute
section / fragment / segment
to examine
to nip off (with fingernails etc) / (fig.) to cut off (supply etc) / to disconnect
to infer / to deduce / to predict / to extrapolate
HSK 7-9
to interrupt / to break off / to break (a bone)
HSK 6
wise and resolute
to buy out / buyout / severance
to break or cut in two / to sever / to cut off / (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc) / to interrupt / (math.) to truncate
to assume / assumption
to monopolize
HSK 7-9
to take one's life
to consider and decide
to quit (taking drugs, alcohol etc); withdrawal
to infer / to judge / inference / judgment / conclusion
(idiom) in unbroken succession; continuous
arbitrary
to shut off
to decide alone without consultation / arbitrary / dictatorial
to make prompt decisions (idiom)
to break up or prevent monopolies / anti-monopoly; antitrust
to act on an opportunity (idiom); to take prompt advantage of a situation
to hang up (a phone)
to judge
to break (e.g. bones) in a fall
to jump to an unfounded conclusion
not to delay making a decision when a decision is needed
to chop off
to make a decision when it's time to decide
partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition
(idiom) resourceful and decisive; resolute and sagacious
to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
(idiom) to waver when decisiveness is needed
to cut off / to chop sth in half
(basketball) to steal (the ball) / (soccer) to dispossess an opponent (by tackling or intercepting a pass)
(of fuse wire) to melt; to blow / (fig.) to halt stock trading / (fig.) to suspend an airline from operating flights on a given route (as a penalty, e.g. for bringing in more than a specified number of passengers who test positive for COVID)
arbitrary / subjective / dogmatic
to judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court) / to hear and decide
to cut off / to interrupt / to prevent access
to cut / to snip
to fall and fracture (a leg, vertebra etc)
disconnected / interrupted / suspended / a gap / a break
HSK 7-9
to nip (i.e. cut short) / to pinch off
to cut off / to sever
(dialect) to break (by twisting, bending, snapping etc)
constantly in turmoil / crisis after crisis
indecisive / irresolute
waiting anxiously (idiom)
lit. to feel as if one's intestines have been cut short / broken-hearted (idiom)
firm / decisive
HSK 7-9
lit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom) / fig. grief-stricken
to block / to obstruct / to intercept / to interdict
oligopoly
to snap sth off / to break


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