Kanji1 / 12
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
- —奇絶very rare; exquisite
- —訣絶breaking off a relationship
- —哀絶extremely sad (event, occurrence); great pity
- —絶念giving up; abandoning (hope, plans)
- —絶起oversleeping and hence feeling despair
- —絶体desperate situation with no escape; being driven into a corner; being cornered; last extremity
- —絶場starting field which contains the November and/or December 20-point card
- —禁絶complete ban; total prohibition
- —絶許absolutely unforgivable; completely inexcusable
- —絶美incredibly beautiful; gorgeous
- —絶対値absolute value
- —絶対論absolutism (phil.)
- —絶交状letter breaking off relations; Dear John letter
- —絶対者the Absolute
- —絶対量absolute amount; absolute quantity
- —絶望的desperate; hopeless
- —絶縁体insulator
- —絶縁線insulated wire
- —核廃絶total abolition of nuclear weapons
- —絶するto exceed (by a lot); to (far) surpass; to end; to cease; to stop