断 — kanji meaning “severance”
断
severance, decline, refuse, apologize, warn, dismiss, prohibit, decision, judgement, cutting
- Meanings
- severance, decline, refuse, apologize, warn, dismiss, prohibit, decision, judgement, cutting
- On'yomi
- ダン (dan)
- Kun'yomi
- た.つ、ことわ.る、さだ.める
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- 5
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #338 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 69
- Chinese reading
- duàn — Chinese character page
Words with 断
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 判断 | はんだん handan | judgment; judgement; decision |
| 診断 | しんだん shindan | diagnosis; medical examination |
| 決断 | けつだん ketsudan | decision; determination |
| 無断 | むだん mudan | absence of permission; lack of permission |
| 中断 | ちゅうだん chuudan | interruption; suspension; break |
| 断念 | だんねん dannen | abandoning (hope, plans); giving up |
| 横断 | おうだん oudan | crossing (a road, river, etc.); cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town); cutting across |
| 断る | ことわる kotowaru | to refuse; to reject; to dismiss |
| 油断 | ゆだん yudan | negligence; carelessness; inattention |
| 切断 | せつだん setsudan | cutting; severance; section |
| 断然 | だんぜん danzen | firmly; flatly; resolutely |
| 断片 | だんぺん danpen | fragment; scrap; piece |
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