断 - severance - division

Word:

• 判断　hanDAN
• English: judge
• Spanish: juzgar

Sentence:

• 本を表紙で判断するな
• hon wo hyōshi de handan suru na
• Don't judge a book by its cover
• No juzges un libro por la portada

Mnemonics:

• The right part is an axe 斤 and the left part contains rice 米. Imagine that there is a fight between two neighbors because they both say they own a certain rice field. The judge comes and uses an axe to divide the rice field in two parts!!