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切 kanji
cut, cutoff, be sharp
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 4
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
セツサイ
Kun readings
きる-きるきり-きり-ぎりきれる-きれるきれ-きれ-ぎれ
Words with 切
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N5大切Popularimportant; significant; serious; crucial; precious; valuable; dear; cherished; beloved; careful
- N4親切Popularkind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice
- N3適切Popularappropriate; suitable; fitting; apt; proper; right; pertinent; relevant
- N1切実Popularearnest; sincere; acute; keen; fervent; pressing; urgent; serious; severe; pertinent; appropriate
- N1切ないPopularpainful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
- N1切開incision; operation; section
- N1痛切keen; acute; heartfelt
- —懇切Popularkind and careful (instruction, explanation, etc.); considerate; helpful; thoughtful; detailed; scrupulous
- —切断Popularcutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection
- —切迫Popularpressure; urgency; tension; imminence; acuteness
- —切腹Popularseppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
- —切望Popularearnest desire; eager hope; longing; yearning; hankering
- —不親切Popularunkindness; unfriendliness
- —不適切Popularunsuitable; inappropriate; improper
- —切eager; earnest; ardent; kind; keen; acute; OFF (on switch)
- —哀切pathetic; plaintive
- —急切under pressure; urgency
- —切愛deep love
- —切諌admonition; expostulation
- —切願entreaty; supplication