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
- —右ずれ断層dextral fault; right-lateral fault
- —左ずれ断層sinistral fault; left-lateral fault
- —定言的判断categorical judgment (judgement)
- —仮言的判断hypothetical judgment (judgement)
- —選言的判断disjunctive judgment (judgement)
- —せん断応力shear stress
- —予後診断医prognostician
- —遺伝子診断genetic diagnosis
- —横断歩道橋pedestrian bridge; footbridge
- —縦断的研究longitudinal study
- —せん断効果shear effect; shearing effect
- —貝殻状断口conchoidal fracture
- —無断居住者squatter; person who occupies a building or land without title or permission
- —油断は禁物be on your guard; negligence is the enemy
- —油断させるto put someone off his guard; to throw someone off his guard
- —禁断の果実forbidden fruit
- —漏電遮断器earth leakage circuit breaker; ground fault circuit interrupter; GFCI; residual current device; RCD
- —踏切遮断機railway crossing gate; railroad crossing gate; level crossing gate
- —ネット断食digital detox; Internet fasting
- —横断地下道underpass; underground crossing
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