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段 duàn piece

piece; section

How to remember 段: cliff face + 殳 strike = piece. On the cliff face, one clumsy hammer strike from the climber sends a big piece of rock tumbling down.

  • 567. most frequent character
  • HSK 3
  • 9 strokes
  • Radical 殳

Component breakdown

段 = cliff face + 殳 strike

  • cliff face
  • 殳 strike
The Gushi story

On the cliff face, one clumsy hammer strike from the climber sends a big piece of rock tumbling down.

How it came to be

A rock face on the left with steps cut into it, and on the right a hand swinging a hammer. Somebody is cutting stone, and what comes off the face is a piece.

How it is used

  • A section or stretch - of text (段落 duànluò, paragraph), road (路段 lùduàn), or time (时段 shíduàn).
  • Also the measure word for a segment: 一段路 (yí duàn lù) a stretch of road, 一段时间 (yí duàn shíjiān) a period of time, 一段话 a passage of speech.
  • 阶段 (jiēduàn) means stage/phase in a process: 初级阶段 (chūjí jiēduàn) the initial stage.
  • 手段 (shǒuduàn) is 'means/method' and often carries a scheming tone - 不择手段 (bùzé-shǒuduàn) by any means necessary.

Characters built with 段

Words with 段

Example sentences

  • 作文只写了一段。 Zuòwén zhǐ xiěle yī duàn.Only one paragraph of the composition has been written.