断档 (duàndàng): to be sold out

Meanings

1 to be sold out
2 to be out of stock
3 to have a supply gap

Characters

断

Examples

这款手机已经断档了。

Zhè kuǎn shǒujī yǐjīng duàndàng le.

This phone model is already sold out.

公司人才断档是个大问题。

Gōngsī réncái duàndàng shì ge dà wèntí.

A talent gap at the company is a serious problem.

Tips

usage

Two domains: retail (out of stock) and HR/management (a gap in the talent pipeline, a missing generation). The HR usage — 人才断档 — is especially common in news.

Stroke Order

断 duàn

档 dàng

Related Words

断货 duànhuò

to run out of stock / to be sold out

断片 duànpiàn

to black out (from drinking); to have a memory gap / (lit.) to break in the middle (of a film) / fragment

断章取义 duànzhāngqǔyì #30,041

to quote out of context / to take something out of context / to distort the meaning by selective quotation

断供 duàngōng

to default on mortgage payments / to cut off supply (of goods, chips, etc.)

断糖 duàntáng

to cut out sugar / to go sugar-free (diet trend)

断了联系 duànleliánxì

to have lost contact / to have fallen out of touch

空档 kòngdàng

gap (between objects) / interval of time between events / free slot (in a schedule) / (figurative) market gap

断 duàn HSK 3 #1,277

to break; to snap; to sever / to cut off; to disconnect / to judge; to decide

断贷 duàndài

to stop mortgage payments / to halt lending (from bank's side)

断层 duàncéng #12,125

fault (geology) / (figuratively) gap; rupture; disconnect / (tomography) cross-sectional