"Abrupt" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 突然 | tū rán | sudden / abrupt / unexpected |   |
| 猛 |  měng | ferocious / fierce / violent / brave / suddenly / abrupt / (slang) awesome | |
| 骤 | zhòu | sudden / unexpected / abrupt / suddenly / Taiwan pr. [zou4] | |
| 匆猝 | cōng cù | hurried / hasty / abrupt | |
| 突兀 | tū wù | lofty or towering / sudden or abrupt | |
| 摇身 | yáo shēn | lit. to shake one's body / refers to abrupt transformation / same as 搖身一變|摇身一变 | |
| 急转直下 | jí zhuǎn zhí xià | to develop rapidly after abrupt turn (idiom) / dramatic change | |
| 串 | chuàn | to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across | |
| 儵 | shù | alternate form of 倏 / sudden / abrupt | |
| 突然气候变化 | tū rán qì hòu biàn huà | abrupt climate change | |
| 一雨成秋 | yī yǔ chéng qiū | a sudden shower towards the end of summer brings an abrupt arrival of autumn (idiom) | |
