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断
JLPT N3 SL5 11 strokes Frequency: #338

Meanings

Severance, Decline, Refuse, Apologize, Warn, Dismiss, Prohibit, Decision, Judgement, Cutting

Radicals

斤

Decomposition

⿰⿺？米斤

Etymology

Ideographic: Using an axe 斤 to harvest grain 米

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 11

Stroke Order

1 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
2 diagonal right-to-left
3 horizontal bottom-to-top
4 vertical right-to-left
5 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
6 dot bottom-right-to-top-left
7 corner bottom-to-top
8 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
9 diagonal right-to-left
10 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
11 vertical right-to-left
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ダン dan
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
ことわ kotowa
た ta
さだ sada

Words Using This Kanji

353 words total
Other (13 words)
断食療法 だんじきりょうほう

starvation cure

遮断薬 しゃだんやく

antagonist

占断 せんだん

prognostication (via divination)

溶断 ようだん

fusion cutting (of metals)

断郊 だんこう

cross-country

超音波診断 ちょうおんぱしんだん

ultrasonography

割断 かつだん

cutting (apart)

せん断機 せんだんき

shearing machine

思い断つ おもいたつ

to give up

判断力批判 はんだんりょくひはん

Kritik der Urteilskraft (1790 book by German philosopher Immanuel Kant)

断トツ だんトツ

far and away the best

一刀両断 いっとうりょうだん

cutting in two with a single stroke

英断 えいだん

firm decision

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