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断片

斷片
duànpiàn
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to black out (from drinking); to have a memory gap
  2. 2 (lit.) to break in the middle (of a film)
  3. 3 fragment

Examples

昨晚喝太多，后半段直接断片了。
Zuówǎn hē tài duō, hòu bàn duàn zhíjiē duànpiàn le.
I drank too much last night — the second half is a total blackout.
我断片了，完全不记得怎么回的家。
Wǒ duànpiàn le, wánquán bù jìde zěnme huí de jiā.
I blacked out; I have no idea how I got home.

Tips

register
The blackout-from-drinking sense is very colloquial, almost always as 断片了. Originally film-reel slang for a broken strip of film.
memory
Your memory literally 'snaps' like a strip of film — 断 (break) + 片 (strip).

Stroke Order

断 duàn
片 piàn