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断 kanji
severance, decline, refuse, apologize, warn, dismiss, prohibit, decision, judgement, cutting
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
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Kun readings
たつことわるさだめる
Variant forms
斷Words with 断
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —交通遮断blockage; quarantine
- —熟慮断行being deliberate in council, and decisive in action
- —瞬間電断power flicker
- —切断患者amputee
- —断固抗議firm opposition
- —判断基準evaluation criteria; evaluation standard
- —不良診断trouble-shooting; fault analysis
- —武断主義militarism
- —武断政治military government
- —包皮切断circumcision
- —無断転載unauthorized reproduction; unauthorised reproduction; unauthorized copying; unauthorised copying
- —油断大敵don't let your guard down; carelessness is the great enemy; danger comes soonest when it is despised
- —性格診断personality assessment; personality analysis
- —判断中止suspension of judgement (judgment)
- —独断専行acting arbitrarily on one's own authority; acting arbitrarily without consultation
- —断郊競走cross-country race
- —価値判断value judgement; value judgment
- —殺生禁断prohibition against hunting and fishing
- —姓名判断fortunetelling based on writing or pronunciation of one's name
- —立体裁断draping
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