断
apologize, cutting, decision, decline, dismiss, judgement, prohibit, refuse, severance, warn
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Grade:5
Strokes:11
JLPT:3
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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