Illustration: Beside a Japanese rice field, a farmer has lowered a solid sluice gate across a narrow irrigation channel. Water presses against the upstream face, with leaves gathered along the sealed edge, while the downstream channel is dry apart from a few remaining puddles.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

遮しゃ断だん

shadan

to block off, to cut off

Example sentences

空気くうきを遮断しゃだんして火ひを消けした。
The air was blocked off, extinguishing the fire.
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がけくずれで交通こうつうは遮断しゃだんされた。
Traffic was blocked by a landslide.
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工事こうじが通とおりへの進入しんにゅうを遮断しゃだんした。
The construction blocked the entrance to the street.
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Kanji in 遮断

遮intercept; interruptOnシャKunさえぎる
断cut; decideOnダンKunたつ・ことわる・さだめる

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