断
sever; refuse; severance; decline; apologize; warn; dismiss; prohibit
11 strokes. Taught in grade 5. Newspaper frequency rank 338.
Readings
- ダン (on reading): 判断 (はんだん) judgment; 横断 (おうだん) crossing (a road, river, etc.)
- ことわる (kun reading): 断る (ことわる) to refuse; 断り (ことわり) notice
- たつ (kun reading): 断つ (たつ) to sever; 断ち切る (たちきる) to cut (cloth, paper, etc.)
- さだめる (kun reading)
Components
Words using 断
- 判断 (はんだん) judgment
- 横断 (おうだん) crossing (a road, river, etc.)
- 診断 (しんだん) diagnosis
- 中断 (ちゅうだん) interruption
- 切断 (せつだん) cutting
- 断る (ことわる) to refuse
- 断り (ことわり) notice
- 入場お断り (にゅうじょうおことわり) No Admittance
- お断り (おことわり) declining
- 断り書き (ことわりがき) explanatory note
- 断つ (たつ) to sever
- 断ち切る (たちきる) to cut (cloth, paper, etc.)
- 断ち割る (たちわる) to cut apart
- 塩断ち (しおだち) abstinence from salt (for vow or spiritual reasons)
- 断ち物 (たちもの) foods abstained from in hopes of having one's desire granted
- 断金 (たんぎん) (in Japan) 2nd note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. D sharp)
- 断ヤオ九 (タンヤオチュー) all simples
402 words in all.