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View 切 kanji details →Results for “切”
eager, earnest, ardent, kind, keen, acute; OFF (on switch)
end, finish, place to stop; bound, limit, end; delivery date (of a futures contract)
to cut, to cut through, to perform (surgery); to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light)
ticket
stamp (postage), merchandise certificate
chance, start, cue, excuse, motive, impetus, occasion
with trouble, at great pains; rare, valuable, precious, long-awaited; kind, generous
to break, to snap, to be cut, to split, to crack; to be injured; to wear out, to be worn out
piece, slice, strip, scrap; cloth; sharpness
to change, to exchange, to convert, to renew, to throw a switch, to replace, to switch over
to cut off (from), to separate, to detach, to sever, to uncouple
cutting, severance, section, amputation, disconnection
to cut off and throw away; to abandon, to disregard, to discard, to throw to the wolves; to discard (numbers after a certain decimal place), to drop, to omit, to ignore, to round down
tangent point, point of contact; contact (electrical, etc.); point of agreement, common ground, interaction
painful, heartrending, trying; oppressive, suffocating, miserable
earnest, sincere, acute, keen, fervent; pressing, urgent, serious, severe; pertinent, appropriate
exchange, conversion, replacement, switching (to), switchover
gap, break, rift; pause, interval, interruption; cut, incision, notch, score
cut end, section, opening, slit; point of view, (different) perspective, new approach
seppuku, 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)
pressure, urgency, tension, imminence, acuteness
to run out of, to be short of, to be out of stock; to be out of (e.g. breath), to lose (one's patience, concentration, etc.)
trump, trump card; ace up one's sleeve, secret weapon
cloth, fabric
earnest desire, eager hope, longing, yearning, hankering
cutting a person down (without a second thought), sacrificing, throwing to the wolves, treating as sword fodder; omission, rounding down (e.g. fractions), truncation
clipping (of newspaper article, etc.), cutting, scrap (for a scrapbook); cut-out (picture, coloured paper, etc.)
to level (earth), to cut through (a mountain); to split (the opposition), to break (strike)
sharpness, cutting ability; quickness (of wit), incisiveness, technical proficiency, skill; peppiness (of a ball)
devaluation (e.g. of currency), markdown, write-down, undercutting
end, conclusion; rounding up; revaluation
Christianity (in feudal Japan), Christian
endless, boundless, innumerable; endless, never-ending, going on forever
- 切れぎれ
completely using up ..., running out of ..., exhausting ...
- 切り出すきりだす
to quarry, to cut (timber), to cut and carry off; to begin to talk, to break the ice, to broach; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.)
- 切り取るきりとる
to cut off, to excise, to tear off, to cut out, to whittle down, to tear out, to cut down, to amputate
- 切り開くきりひらく
to cut open; to clear (land), to cut (a path, road, etc.), to open, to cut one's way through (e.g. a jungle); to carve out (a new career, future, etc.), to open up (a new field)
- 切り抜けるきりぬける
to cut one's way through, to fight one's way through (the enemy); to get over, to come through, to overcome (a difficulty)
- 切開せっかい
incision, operation, section
- 切り上げるきりあげる
to close (at a certain point), to cut short, to stop early, to finish (at a convenient spot); to round up (number); to revalue (currency)