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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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ダン
Kun readings
たつことわるさだめる
Variant forms
斷Words with 断
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —断酒abstinence from alcohol
- —断章literary fragment; interpreting (and using) a passage without regard to its context
- —断筆ceasing to write; ceasing one's writing activities; retiring as a writer; putting down one's pen
- —断頭beheading; decapitation
- —断口fracture
- —断岩precipice; cliff
- —断乳stopping breastfeeding
- —細断shredding; chopping up; pulping
- —断截cutting; cutting off; severing
- —断機cutting the threads on a loom
- —断歯teeth clipping; grinding down teeth
- —断行asceticism; practices that eliminate afflictions
- —断想fragmentary thoughts; random thoughts
- —断点cutting point
- —誤断misjudgement
- —截断cutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection
- —断橋broken bridge
- —断端stump; residual limb
- —断簡fragment of a historical document; scrap of an old manuscript; piece of an antique record
- —断薬ceasing medication (esp. of antipsychotic drugs); discontinuation of medication; withdrawal
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