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

= + + : Doggy Dog is working out in the anthill's bathroom. He uses two big barbells, but they are not enough: He attached shovels to the barbells and sacks of rice on them. The load is too much though: Just as he is pushing the barbells up the shafts of the shovels snap.

断 character breakdown

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚). Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) shoveling a grave in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
catty / (PRC) weight equal to 500 g / (Tw) weight equal to 600 g / (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) is lifting barbells (斤) in front of the encampment ((e)n1). Before each set she eats all the bananas from a banana tree (⺁) for the magnesium, and after each set she eats a T-bone steak (丅) for the protein.
surname Mi
rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sack of rice.

Marilyn Monroe and the mean crocodile celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree inside of the space station. Coincidentally they got each other the same present: each of them is giving the other one a sack of rice.

Characters with 断 as component

bamboo fish trap

Words with 断

to judge / to determine / judgment
to cut short / to break off / to discontinue / to interrupt
ability to judge / judgment
to cut off / to sever
to bring to a conclusion / to settle (a dispute) / to do away with (oneself) / to break off (a relationship) / resolution (of a problem)
arbitration (law)
resourceful and decisive / resolute and sagacious
to nip (i.e. cut short) / to pinch off
to jump to an unfounded conclusion
resourceful and decisive; resolute and sagacious
to suffer serious injury (idiom)
to cut / to snip
to rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom) / to break all friendly ties
to get blackout drunk (slang)

Sentences with 断

断 currently does not appear in any sentence.