段 duàn paragraphsectionsegmentstage (of a process)classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etcsurname Duan Example sentences 我要出国学习一段时间。 wǒ yào chūguó xuéxí yī duàn shíjiān. I want to go abroad to study for a time 电影的后半段我在电影院睡着了。 diànyǐng de hòu bàn duàn wǒ zài diànyǐngyuàn shuì zháo le. I fell asleep in the cinema for the second half of the movie