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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
- —逆断層reverse fault
- —断言的categorical (e.g. assertion, denial); assertive; insistent; categorical
- —断片化fragmentation
- —中断点breakpoint
- —独断的dogmatic; arbitrary
- —診断医diagnostician
- —縦断的longitudinal
- —断層帯fault zone; fault belt
- —断層線fault line
- —断層面fault plane; fault surface
- —断層湖fault lake
- —断層谷fault valley
- —断層崖fault scarp; fault escarpment
- —筋断裂muscle rupture; myorrhexis
- —横断的cross-sectional; lateral; transverse; transversal; cross-cutting
- —細断機shredder; chopper
- —断捨離decluttering; clearing out past accumulation; minimalism
- —断ずるto conclude; to decide; to determine; to judge
- —切断厨ragequitter; person who disconnects from an online game (when losing)
- —肌断食not using makeup to allow one's skin to heal
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