Illustration: On a narrow street outside a shuttered merchant house, a swordsman completes a sweeping stroke against an armed attacker. His steel blade has just passed across the attacker's upper arm, leaving a cut through the sleeve and a small wound beneath.

Beyond N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

斬きる

kiru

to cut down with a blade

Usually refers to cutting a person with a blade. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 暗あんに斬きれという命令めいれいであった。

    This order indirectly called for him to be killed by the blade.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 追放ついほうの理由りゆうには僧そうを斬きるなど自身じしんの乱行らんぎょうが原因げんいんであるとの説せつがある。

    There is a theory that his banishment was caused by his own immorality such as killing a monk.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 久米くめと松平まつだいらはその場ばで斬きられて死しんだ。

    Kume and Matsudaira were killed on the spot.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 斬

  • 斬beheading; killOnザン・サン・センKunきる

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