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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
- —遮断壁bulkhead; barrier
- —断々固firm; resolute; absolutely
- —独断論dogmatism; dogma
- —断片的fragmentary
- —断面図cross-section view
- —断続的intermittent
- —横断面(transverse) cross section
- —活断層active fault
- —夢判断interpretation of dreams; dream reading; oneirocriticism; oneiroscopy; The Interpretation of Dreams (book by Sigmund Freud, 1900)
- —大英断resolute decision
- —決断力decisiveness
- —診断学diagnostics
- —診断薬diagnostic drug; diagnostic pharmaceutical
- —裁断機cutting machine; cutter; (paper) guillotine
- —断髪式retirement ceremony of a wrestler where his top-knot is cut
- —断じるto conclude; to decide; to determine; to judge
- —診断法means of diagnosis
- —癌診断cancer diagnosis
- —断層像tomographic image
- —正断層normal fault
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