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
- —出生前診断prenatal diagnosis; prenatal screening
- —苦渋の決断agonizing decision
- —横断歩行者road crosser; pedestrian crossing the road
- —断固としてfirmly; resolutely; decisively; in a determined manner
- —超音波診断ultrasonography; ultrasound
- —判断力批判Kritik der Urteilskraft (1790 book by German philosopher Immanuel Kant); Critique of Judgment; Critique of the Power of Judgment
- —禁断の木の実forbidden fruit
- —大陸横断鉄道transcontinental railroad
- —せん断抵抗角angle of shearing resistance
- —業況判断指数diffusion index; DI; business sentiment index
- —断面プロットslice plot
- —電源切断状態power disconnected (state)
- —縦断的データlongitudinal data
- —横断的データcross-sectional data
- —押し被せ断層overthrust fault
- —ギロチン破断guillotine break (coolant loss in a nuclear power plant); guillotine rupture
- —油断ならないtreacherous; dangerous; untrustworthy; sneaky; cunning
- —配線用遮断器molded-case circuit breaker; MCCB
- —自転車横断帯bicycle crossing lane
- —断続クラッチclutch control
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