Illustration: At the wrapping counter of a small Japanese stationery shop, a shopkeeper closes a pair of scissors through a ribbon stretched from a spool. One hand holds the measured length beside a neatly wrapped parcel; the other operates the scissors, whose blades meet at the freshly severed ends.

JLPT N5verbLevel estimated by Bebop

切きる

kiru

to cut

Example sentences

  1. 指ゆびを切きりました。

    I just cut my finger.

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  2. 指ゆびを切きらないでよ。

    Don’t cut your finger.

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  3. このひもを切きるナイフをちょうだい。

    Give me a knife to cut this string with.

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Kanji in 切

  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる

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