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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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On readings
ダン
Kun readings
たつことわるさだめる
Variant forms
斷Words with 断
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —裁断cutting (cloth, paper, etc.); judgement; judgment; decision
- —瞬断power flicker
- —聖断imperial decision
- —専断arbitrary decision; using one's own discretion; acting on one's own authority
- —即断prompt decision; snap judgement; snap judgment
- —速断rash decision; jumping to a conclusion
- —断崖precipice; cliff; bluff
- —断罪judgment (of a crime); conviction; condemnation; beheading; decapitation
- —断種sterilization; sterilisation; castration
- —断線disconnection; interruption; burn-out
- —断腸heartbreak; grief; sorrow
- —電断interruption of power
- —同断the same; ditto
- —武断militarism
- —盲断hasty conclusion
- —勇断resolute decision
- —両断bisection
- —論断conclusion; verdict
- —壟断monopoly
- —轢断cutting in two under train wheels
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