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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
- —断交breaking off relations (esp. between countries)
- —憶断jumping to hasty conclusions; conjecture
- —妄断reckless decision; rash decision
- —明断clear or definite judgement (judgment)
- —断金close friendship (i.e. strong enough to cut metal)
- —断案conclusion; decision
- —断裁cutting; cutting off
- —断髪cutting of hair (to a short length); haircutting; bobbed hair; bob
- —推断inference; deduction
- —処断judgement; judgment; carrying out a sentence (e.g. execution)
- —易断divination; fortunetelling
- —断路disconnection (of a wire)
- —雄断manly decision
- —分断dividing into parts
- —断尾cropping a tail
- —断碑broken stone monument
- —破断rupture; break; fracture
- —離断dissection; disconnection; diaeresis
- —断裂snapping apart
- —断獄trying of a crime; conviction; condemnation to death by beheading
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