to die without progeny; (offensive) may you die childless; may you be the last of your family line
trad. 斷子絕孫
Also written 斷子絕孫【duàn zǐ jué sūn】
Characters in this word
4断
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to break, to snap, to cut off, to give up or abstain from sth, to judge, (usu. used in the negative) absolutely, definitely, decidedly
- Pinyin
- duàn
- Traditional
- 斷
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 3778 of 2500
子
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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[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500
绝
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to cut short, extinct, to disappear, to vanish, absolutely, by no means
- Pinyin
- jué
- Traditional
- 絕
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 11640 of 2500
孙
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surname Sun
- Pinyin
- Sūn
- Traditional
- 孫
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 24090 of 2500