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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ダン
Kun readings
たつことわるさだめる
Variant forms
斷Words with 断
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —占断prognostication (via divination); prophesying; fully owning; possessing wholly
- —溶断fusion cutting (of metals); plasma cutting; blowout (of a fuse)
- —断郊cross-country
- —割断cutting (apart); splitting; cleaving
- —断琴cutting the strings of a koto
- —裁断師(tailor's) cutter
- —診断書medical certificate
- —切断図sectional drawing
- —切断面(cross) section (e.g. in a drawing); transverse section; cutting plane
- —断頭台(beheading) block; guillotine; scaffold
- —断熱材heat insulating material
- —断熱的adiabatic
- —断末魔one's last moments; hour of death; death throes; agonies of death
- —判断力judgment; judgement; discernment
- —不決断irresolution; indecision; vacillation
- —武断的militaristic
- —無断でwithout permission; without notice
- —せん断shear; shearing
- —切断機cutter; cutting machine; guillotine
- —断裁機cutting machine; paper cutter; guillotine
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