Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

338 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

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

Kunyomi: た.つ ことわ.る さだ.める

Onyomi: ダン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: おのづくり

Meaning: axe

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

食(だんじき)   fasting

面(だんめん)   cross-section

歩道(おうだんほどう)   pedestrian crossing

続的な(だんぞくてきな)   intermittent

定的な(だんていてきな)   assertive

する(はんだんする)   judge [v.i.]

する(けつだんする)   decide

する(ちゅうだんする)   interrupt, break off

する(ゆだんする)   neglect, be off guard [v.i.]

する(しんだんする)   diagnose

つ(たつ)   cut off, sever, abstain from

る(ことわる)   refuse, decline

Onyomi Examples

ダン decision, judgment, resolution

ダンゲン assertion, declaration, affirmation

ドクダン one's own judgement (judgment), decision made without consulting others, arbitrary decision, dogmatism

ジュウダン running through (north-south), cutting across, travelling across, cutting vertically, sectioning longitudinally

Kunyomi Examples

たつ to sever, to cut off, to suppress, to eradicate, to exterminate, to abstain (from), to give up

ことわる to refuse, to reject, to dismiss, to turn down, to decline, to inform, to give notice, to tell in advance, to ask leave, to excuse oneself (from)

るまでもなく ことわるまでもなく needless to say