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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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ダン
Kun readings
たつことわるさだめる
Variant forms
斷Words with 断
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —早期診断early diagnosis
- —断を下すto pass judgment (judgement); to make a decision
- —せん断箱shear box
- —状況判断assessment of the situation; judging according to the situation
- —断崖絶壁precipitous cliff; sheer precipice; critical situation
- —断層写真tomogram; tomograph
- —画像診断image diagnosis
- —景気判断economic assessment
- —政治決断political decision
- —迅速果断quick and decisive; fast and daring
- —即断即決making a swift decision; making immediate decisions and taking quick actions
- —剛毅果断dauntless and decisive; with fortitude and resolution
- —素人判断layperson's judgment (opinion)
- —是非判断discrimination of right and wrong; distinguishing between right and wrong
- —専断横行prevalence of arbitrariness; rife with arbitrary decisions (acting on one's own authority)
- —即決即断prompt decision and prompt execution; make swift decisions and take quick actions
- —断章取義interpreting (and using) a passage without regard to its context
- —無断外泊staying out overnight without giving notice; spending night(s) away from home without permission (leave)
- —連綿不断long and uninterrupted (unbroken)
- —間断なくcontinuously; constantly; incessantly
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