断

Meaning

断 centers on cutting something off decisively: physically severing, refusing or declining, making a firm judgment, or prohibiting. The common thread is a clear, often abrupt, break or decision.

• 判断はんだん
  N3

  judgment; judgement; decision; conclusion; adjudication

• 診断しんだん
  N2

  diagnosis; medical examination

• 断ることわる
  N3

  to refuse; to reject; to dismiss; to turn down; to decline

• 決断けつだん
  N1

  decision; determination

• 無断むだん
  N2

  absence of permission; lack of permission

• 切断せつだん
  N1

  cutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection

• 中断ちゅうだん
  N2

  interruption; suspension; break

• 油断ゆだん
  N2

  negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness

• 断言だんげん
  N1

  assertion; declaration; affirmation

• 横断おうだん
  N3

  crossing (a road, river, etc.); cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town); cutting across; intersecting (e.g. a railway track)

• 断念だんねん
  N1

  abandoning (hope, plans); giving up

• 断だん

  decision; judgment; resolution

• 遮断しゃだん

  isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation

• 断つたつ
  N1

  to sever; to cut off

• 断然だんぜん
  N2

  firmly; flatly; resolutely; decisively; absolutely; definitely

• 断片だんぺん
  N1

  fragment; scrap; piece; shred

• 断りことわり

  notice; notification; warning

• 断面だんめん
  N1

  section; cross section; profile

• 断層だんそう

  fault; dislocation

• 断定だんてい
  N2

  conclusion; decision; judgement; declaration

• 独断どくだん
  N1

  one's own judgement (judgment); decision made without consulting others; arbitrary decision

• 断固だんこ
  N1

  firm; determined; resolute; conclusive

• 断トツだんトツ

  far and away the best; the very best; cream of the crop; crème de la crème; decisive lead; commanding lead

• 断絶だんぜつ
  N1

  extinction (e.g. of a family); dying out; discontinuation

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