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切り

切り

Japanese

Kanji in this term
Grade: 2

Noun

切り (hiragana きり, romaji kiri)

  1. limits, bounds, end

Derived terms

Suffix

切り (hiragana きり, romaji -kiri)

  1. cutter

Derived terms

  • 石切り (ishikiri): stone-cutting, quarrying
  • 缶切り (kankiri): can opener
  • 水切り (mizukiri): drainer, strainer, colander
  • 爪切り, 爪切 (tsumekiri): nail clippers
  • 菜切り包丁 (nakiri-bōchō): Japanese knife used for cutting vegetables
  • 肉切り庖丁 (nikukiri-bōchō): carving or butcher's knife
  • 螺子切り (nejikiri): **** cutter, thread cutting
  • ガラス切り (garasukiri): glass cutter

Suffix

切り (hiragana ぎり, romaji -giri)

  1. way of cutting

Derived terms

  • 厚切り (atsugiri): thick slice
  • 薄切り (usugiri): thin slice, slicing thin
  • 角切り (kakugiri): cut into cubes
  • 細切り (komagiri): something chopped or sliced finely
  • っ切り (zangiri): cutting short
  • 筒切り (tsutsugiri): round slices
  • 胴切り (dōgiri): cutting horizontally into the torso
  • 爪切り (wagiri); round slices
  • ざく切り (zakugiri): cutting into chunks
  • 削ぎ切り (sogigiri): cutting a thin object at a 45 degree angle
  • 袈裟切り (kesagiri): slashing a sword diagonally from the shoulder
  • みじん切り, 微塵切り (mijingiri): finely chopped
  • 四つ切り (yotsugiri): cutting into four, quarter
  • 六つ切り (mutsugiri): cutting into six
  • 八つ切り, 八切 (yatsugiri): cutting into eight

Particle

切り (hiragana きり, romaji kiri)

  1. just, only

Derived terms

  • これ切り, 此れ切り, 是切り (kore kiri): last time, never again, only this
  • それ切り, 其れ切り (sore kiri): with that, on that note
  • 一人切り, 1人切り, 独り切り (hitori kiri): all on one's own
  • 二人切り, 2人切り (futari kiri): just the two of them