断
Meaning
- to break
- to snap
- to cut off
Example sentence
她打断了我。
She interrupted me.
The character 断
断 has 斤, an axe, on the right: cutting through. 断了 is snapped in two where 坏了 is merely out of order — and deciding where the cut falls gives 判断, to judge. 不断 is without a break.