Kanji
N3 11 strokes Grade 5 freq #338

severance, decline, refuse, apologize, warn

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

axe onozukuri

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

judgment; judgement
decision; determination
diagnosis; medical examination
decision; judgment
abandoning (hope, plans); giving up
crossing (a road, river, etc.); cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town)
assertion; declaration
prediction; prejudgment
firm; determined
intermittence; being intermittent

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to refuse; to reject
without permission
to sever; to cut off

Example sentences

He erred in his judgement.

Don't judge people by their appearance.

The judge concluded that the prisoner was guilty.

The decision was still in the air.