Illustration: At a small craft workshop's counter, a worker deducts a fee from a customer's coin payout. Ten identical coins were arranged in two tidy rows of five; the worker is sliding three into a separate shallow dish, leaving seven in the original arrangement with three obvious gaps.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

差さし引ひく

sashihiku

to deduct, to subtract

Example sentences

  1. １０から２を差さし引ひくと８です。

    Subtract two from ten and you have eight.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 金融機関きんゆうきかんの口座こうざから直接料金ちょくせつりょうきんを差さし引ひいて支払しはらう。

    Payment is directly subtracted from the user’s account in a financial institution.

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

  3. 壊こわしたら、給料きゅうりょうから差さし引ひくよ。

    If you break it, I’ll take it out of your pay.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 差引

  • 差distinction; differenceOnサKunさす・さし
  • 引pullOnインKunひく・ひける

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