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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
- —切断患者amputee
- —切磋琢磨diligent application (to work or study); cultivating one's character by studying hard; mutual encouragement (to improve); working hard together; friendly rivalry
- —帝王切開Caesarean section; Cesarean section; C-section
- —包皮切断circumcision
- —切開手術surgical operation
- —気管切開tracheotomy
- —乳房切除mastectomy
- —懇切丁寧kind, careful, and thorough (of an explanation, advice, etc.); thoughtful and scrupulous
- —老婆心切grandmotherly solicitude for another's welfare; excessive solicitude
- —丁寧懇切kind, careful, and thorough (of an explanation, advice, etc.); thoughtful and scrupulous
- —異常切断abnormal termination (of a call, e.g.)
- —回線切断hang-up; HUP (signal)
- —切迫流産threatened abortion; imminent abortion; threatened miscarriage; imminent miscarriage
- —角膜切開keratotomy; corneal incision
- —脊髄切断spinalization; cordotomy
- —胃切除術gastrectomy
- —肺切除術pneumonectomy
- —会陰切開episiotomy; perineotomy
- —ご親切にhow kind of you; that's very nice of you; kindly
- —横断切片transverse section