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Mythic Mandarin

段 (duàn): meaning and stroke order

段 (duàn) means paragraph, section, segment, stage (of a process).

段

Simplified
段
Traditional
段 (same form)
Pinyin
duàn

Stroke order of 段

段

  • Duàn surname Duan
  • duàn paragraph; section
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 段

  1. duàn
    • paragraph
    • section
    • segment
    • stage (of a process)
    • classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
  2. Duàn
    • surname Duan

Radical and structure

段
Radical 殳 (Kangxi radical 79) · 9 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 段

段 in our stories

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  • 当天晚上,这段视频被人剪了出来,放到网上,一夜之间有了两百万次播放。

    dàngtiān wǎnshang zhè duàn shìpín bèi rén jiǎn le chūlai fàng dào wǎngshang yí yè zhījiān yǒu le liǎngbǎiwàn cì bōfàng

    That night someone clipped the video and posted it online; overnight it got two million views.

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 段

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).