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絶 kanji
discontinue, sever, cut off, abstain, interrupt, suppress, be beyond, without match, peerless, unparalleled
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 5 (elementary school)
On readings
ゼツ
Kun readings
たえるたやすたつ
Words with 絶
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —絶唱superb poem or song
- —絶景superb view; picturesque scenery
- —絶無nothing; nil; naught; nought
- —絶品superb piece of work; masterpiece; exquisite item; perfection; unique article
- —絶後(of a kind) never to be seen again
- —絶倒extreme excitement; sidesplitting laughter
- —絶家extinct family
- —絶勝splendor; splendour; superb view
- —絶筆one's last (piece of) writing; last work; ceasing to write; giving up writing
- —凄絶extremely gruesome; lurid; violent; bloody; fierce
- —義絶disownment
- —卓絶excellence
- —快絶splendid
- —悶絶fainting in agony
- —嶄絶sheer; precipitous
- —勝絶(in Japan) 4th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. F); excellence (of scenery, etc.)
- —絶技special move (e.g. in martial arts)
- —孤絶being isolated; being separated; being cut off
- —絶待absoluteness; incomparability; supremacy
- —死絶end (of a family bloodline); dying