widowed; lit. broken string, cf 琴瑟[qin2 se4] qin and se, two instruments epitomizing marital harmony
trad. 斷弦
Also written 斷弦【duàn xián】
Characters in this word
2断
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
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
弦
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
bow string, string of musical instrument, watchspring, chord (segment of curve), hypotenuse, CL:根[gen1]
- Pinyin
- xián
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 13577 of 2500