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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
- —切言earnest persuasion; urging strongly; saying harshly; arguing fiercely; cutting remark
- —切歯incisor (esp. in humans); grinding one's teeth; bruxism; gnashing of teeth
- —切除cut off; cut out; ablation; resection; surgical removal
- —切情ardent love
- —切片segment; slice; section; fragment; intercept
- —切論persistent argument
- —切磋working hard; applying oneself; cultivating one's character (through hard work or study); polishing (stones)
- —半切cutting in half; painting or calligraphy done on a half-sized piece of paper; half-size paper
- —剴切appropriateness; adequacy; aptness; relevance
- —切々passionate; fervent; affecting; moving; touching
- —緊切urgent; pressing
- —切削cutting (e.g. metal)
- —切要essential; vital
- —切入OFF-ON (marking on switches)
- —切にeagerly; earnestly; ardently
- —切韻qieyun (ancient Chinese dictionary arranged by rhyme, displaying characters' meanings and representing their pronunciation with fanqie)
- —反切fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone
- —自切autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator
- —切創cut wound; incised wound; knife wound
- —切羽thin washer on either side of the guard (tsuba) of a sword; (up to) the hilt; wits' end