斷腸

See also: 断肠

Chinese

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): duàncháng

(Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢˋ ㄔㄤˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun⁶ coeng⁴
Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): toān-tiông / toǎn-tiông / toān-chhiâng / toān-tn̂g

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: duàncháng
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢˋ ㄔㄤˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: duàncháng
  - Wade–Giles: tuan⁴-chʻang²
  - Yale: dwàn-cháng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duanncharng
  - Palladius: дуаньчан (duanʹčan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɑŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: dyun⁶ coeng⁴
  - Yale: dyuhn chèuhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dyn⁶ tsoeng⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: dün⁶ cêng⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyːn²² t͡ʃʰœːŋ²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: toān-tiông
  - Tâi-lô: tuān-tiông
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doaxndioong
  - IPA (Taipei): /tuan³³⁻¹¹ tiɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tuan³³⁻²¹ tiɔŋ²³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tuan²²⁻²¹ tiɔŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: toǎn-tiông
  - Tâi-lô: tuǎn-tiông
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tuan²² tiɔŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: toān-chhiâng
  - Tâi-lô: tuān-tshiâng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doaxnchiaang
  - IPA (Taipei): /tuan³³⁻¹¹ t͡ɕʰiaŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tuan³³⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰiaŋ²³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tuan²²⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰiaŋ¹³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: toān-tn̂g
  - Tâi-lô: tuān-tn̂g
  - Phofsit Daibuun: doaxnd'ngg
  - IPA (Taipei): /tuan³³⁻¹¹ tŋ̍²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tuan³³⁻²¹ tŋ̍²³/

Verb

斷腸

(literally) to cut off the intestines
(figurative) to be extremely distressed; to be heartbroken; to be anguished
- 大同江上別情人，楊柳千絲未繫人。含淚眼看含淚眼，斷腸人對斷腸人。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]
  From: Poem attributed to a Pyong'yang courtesan, 1800s
  Daedonggang sang byeol jeong'in, yangnyu cheon sa mi gye in. Hamnu an gan hamnu an, danjang in dae danjang in. [Sino-Korean]
  By the Taedong I bid my love farewell; the willow's thousand strands could not hold him back. Tearful eyes stare at tearful eyes, heartbroken woman facing heartbroken man.

Synonyms

(extremely distressed): 腸斷／肠断 (chángduàn), 心碎 (xīnsuì)

Derived terms

斷腸猿／断肠猿
斷腸花／断肠花
斷腸草／断肠草

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (斷腸):

→ Japanese: 断腸(だんちょう) (danchō)
→ Korean: 단장(斷腸) (danjang)
→ Vietnamese: đoạn trường (Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))

Others:

→ Korean: 애끊다 (aekkeunta) (calque)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
斷	腸

Adjective

斷腸

chữ Hán form of đoạn trường.

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