断绝

断绝 duànjué in a sentence

Cuts off (sever)

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

断绝 (duànjué) means Cuts off (sever). Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

他们已经 断绝 来往很多年了。

Tāmen yǐjīng duànjué láiwǎng hěn duō nián le.

They broke off contact many years ago.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 断绝

洪水使这个村子 断绝 了对外联系。

Hóngshuǐ shǐ zhège cūnzi duànjué le duìwài liánxì.

The flood cut this village off from the outside world.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 断绝

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How is 断绝 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 断绝 (duànjué, "Cuts off (sever)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 断绝 an HSK word?

Yes — 断绝 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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