断

severance, decline, refuse, apologize, warn, dismiss, prohibit, decision, judgement, cutting

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ダン

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

ことわ.るさだ.めるた.つ

Stroke Order

11 / 11

Information

Grade:5

Strokes:11

JLPT:N3

Frequency:338

Vocabulary

ダン

Word	Reading	Meaning
横断	オウダン	crossing (a road, river, etc.); cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town); cutting across; intersecting (e.g. a railway track); crossing (east-west); traversing; travelling across; flying across (e.g. the Pacific); sailing across; cutting horizontally; sectioning laterally
横断歩道	オウダンホドウ	pedestrian crossing; crosswalk
決断	ケツダン	decision; determination
縦断	ジュウダン	running through (north-south); cutting across; travelling across; cutting vertically; sectioning longitudinally
診断	シンダン	diagnosis; medical examination

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
断える	たえる	to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued; to be cut off
断じて	だんじて	absolutely; positively; decidedly
断る	ことわる	to refuse; to reject; to dismiss; to turn down; to decline; to inform; to give notice; to ask in advance (and get approval); to get permission; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
断片	だんぺん	fragment; scrap; piece; shred
断つ	たつ	to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to exterminate; to abstain (from); to give up

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