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Definition(s) for: 断子绝孙

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
断子绝孙 duàn zǐ jué sūn - to die without progeny
- (offensive) may you die childless
- may you be the last of your family line

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 63,879 30,635

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
duàn- to break
- to snap
- to cut off
- to give up or abstain from sth
- to judge
- (usu. used in the negative) absolutely
- definitely
- decidedly
- son
- child
- seed
- egg
- small thing
- 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat
- viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3deng3 jue2wei4]
- ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)
- subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
zi- (noun suffix)
jué- to cut short
- extinct
- to disappear
- to vanish
- absolutely
- by no means
jué- variant of 絕|绝[jue2]
sūn- surname Sun
sūn- grandson
- descendant

Other Words Containing 断子绝孙

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo