| 横断山脉 | Héng duàn shān mài | Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet |
| 横断步道 | héng duàn bù dào | pedestrian crossing |
| 横断物 | héng duàn wù | transverse object |
| 正断层 | zhèng duàn céng | normal fault (geology) |
| 正电子断层 | zhèng diàn zǐ duàn céng | PET, positron emission tomography (medical imaging method) |
正电子照射断层摄 影 | zhēng diàn zǐ zhào shè duàn céng shè yǐng | positrion emission tomography (PET) |
正电子发射断层照 相术 | zhèng diàn zǐ fā shè duàn céng zhào xiāng shù | positron emission tomography (PET) |
正电子发射计算机 断层 | zhèng diàn zǐ fā shè jì suàn jī duàn céng | PET, positron emission tomography (medical imaging method) |
| 源源不断 | yuán yuán bù duàn | a steady flow (idiom); an unending stream |
| 独断专行 | dú duàn zhuān xíng | to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action; a law unto oneself |
| 独断独行 | dú duàn dú xíng | to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action; a law unto oneself |
| 当机立断 | dāng jī lì duàn | to make prompt decisions (idiom) |
| 眼穿肠断 | yǎn chuān cháng duàn | the eyes bore through, the belly hungers (idiom); in eager anticipation; keenly awaiting |
| 砍断 | kǎn duàn | to chop off |
| 圣安地列斯断层 | Shèng Ān de liè sī duàn céng | San Andreas fault, California; also written 圣安德列斯断层 |
| 圣安德列斯断层 | Shèng Ān dé liè sī duàn céng | San Andreas fault, California |
| 听断 | tīng duàn | to judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court); to hear and decide |
| 肝肠寸断 | gān cháng cùn duàn | lit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom); broken hearted; all cut up |
| 藕断丝连 | ǒu duàn sī lián | lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another |
| 冲断层 | chōng duàn céng | thrust fault (geology); compression fault |
| 裁断 | cái duàn | consider and decide |
| 计算机断层 | jì suàn jī duàn céng | CT, computed tomography (medical imaging method) |
| 诊断功能 | zhěn duàn gōng néng | diagnostic function |
| 评断 | píng duàn | to judge |
| 词汇判断 | cí huì pàn duàn | lexical decision |
| 词汇判断任务 | cí huì pàn duàn rèn wù | lexical decision task |
| 词汇判断作业 | cí huì pàn duàn zuò yè | lexical decision task |
| 词汇判断法 | cí huì pàn duàn fǎ | lexical decision task |
| 识文断字 | shí wén duàn zì | literate; a cultured person |
| 买断 | mǎi duàn | to buy out; buyout; severance |
| 走向断层 | zǒu xiàng duàn céng | strike fault (geology) |
| 走向滑动断层 | zǒu xiàng huá dòng duàn céng | strike-slip fault (geology); fault line where the two sides slide horizontally past one another |
| 超声诊断 | chāo shēng zhěn duàn | ultrasonic diagnosis; diagnosis using ultrasonic scan |
| 跌断 | diē duàn | to fall and fracture (a leg, vertebra etc) |
| 转换断层 | zhuǎn huàn duàn céng | transform fault (geology) |
| 逆断层 | nì duàn céng | reverse fault (geology); compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees |
| 连续不断 | lián xù bù duàn | continuous; unceasing |
| 逸尘断鞅 | yì chén duàn yāng | lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness; fig. to ride like the wind (idiom) |
| 阻断 | zǔ duàn | to block; to obstruct; to intercept; to interdict |
| 隔断板 | gé duàn bǎn | partition board |
| 颓垣断壁 | tuí yuán duàn bì | crumbling fences and dilapidated walls (idiom) |
| 龙门山断层 | Lóng mén shān duàn céng | Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin |
| 龙门断层 | Lóng mén duàn céng | Longmenshan fault line, a tectonically active thrust fault line at the northwest boundary of the Sichuan basin |