戛然而止 Save Sign in to save words jiáránérzhǐ ㄐㄧㄚˊ ㄖㄢˊ ㄦˊ ㄓˇ with a grunting sound it stops (idiom) to come to an end spontaneously (esp. of sound) Character by character 戛(jiá)lance 然(rán)correct 而(ér)and 止(zhǐ)stop A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0