cut; earnest

Builds 81 distinct compound words — ranked #51 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: セツ・サイ
訓 kun: き.る・き.れる

Cutting, and — less obviously — intensity, something cut close to the bone. 大切 precious, 親切 kind, 切符 a ticket.

The ten most common compounds built on 切. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

81compounds built

1,699times those words occur

#43by productivity alone

#82by how often it turns up

Where 切 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 切. Each one opens its own map.

大big大切#6 手hand切手、小切手#10 小small小切手#69

Words built on 切

親切しんせつ468 uses

大切たいせつ186 uses

切るきる119 uses

切れるきれる118 uses

切符きっぷ111 uses 切手きって81 uses

横切るよこぎる54 uses

裏切るうらぎる45 uses

適切てきせつ40 uses

小切手こぎって37 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.