Kanji1 / 11
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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On readings
ダン
Kun readings
たつことわるさだめる
Variant forms
斷Words with 断
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —常住不断ceaseless; constant; uninterrupted
- —感覚遮断sensory deprivation
- —診断検査diagnostic examination; diagnostic assay
- —血清診断serodiagnosis
- —異常切断abnormal termination (of a call, e.g.)
- —回線切断hang-up; HUP (signal)
- —自己診断self-diagnosis; self-examination
- —診断機能diagnostic function
- —診断出力diagnostic output
- —判断記号decision symbol
- —判断命令decision instruction
- —分断後部widow (one or more lines separated from the rest of the preceding passage by page or column break)
- —分断前部orphan (one or more lines separated from the rest of the following passage by page or paragraph break)
- —組織横断cross-departmental; cross-functional
- —剪断加工shear processing
- —運勢判断fortune-telling
- —断層撮影tomography
- —司法判断judicial ruling; judicial decision; judgment; judgement
- —判断ミスerror of judgment; miscalculation; bad decision
- —震源断層earthquake source fault
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