EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    cutting a person down (without a second thought); sacrificing; throwing to the wolves; treating as sword fodder

  2. omission; rounding down (e.g. fractions); truncation

    see 切り上げ

Also written 切捨て【きりすて】斬り捨て【きりすて】斬捨て【きりすて】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

cut, cutoff, be sharp

Kun
き.る-き.るき.り-き.り-ぎ.りき.れる-き.れるき.れ-き.れ-ぎ.れ
On
セツサイ
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N4
Frequency
324 of 2500
Radical
knife
WaniKani
Level 3

Built from

Used in names as

きつきりぎり

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
1-2-2SKIP code
2f2.2The Kanji Dictionary
4772.0Four corner code
1445deroo
5207Unicode hex code
1-32-58JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
667Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
453New Nelson (John Haig)
27New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
30Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
15Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
15Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
85Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
89Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
204A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
51Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
36Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1858Morohashi
156A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
39Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
39Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
99sakade
126Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
173henshall3
97Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
208crowley
250Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.3busy_people
179Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
86Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
qie1, qie4Pinyin reading
jeol, cheKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
3WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

discard, throw away, abandon, resign, reject, sacrifice

Kun
す.てる
On
シャ
Strokes
11
Taught
Grade 6
JLPT
N2
Frequency
1266 of 2500
Radical
hand
WaniKani
Level 32

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (31)
CodeReference
1-3-8SKIP code
3c8.26The Kanji Dictionary
5806.1Four corner code
1377deroo
6368Unicode hex code
1-28-46JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1944Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2205New Nelson (John Haig)
501New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
608Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
369Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
461Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
655Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
707Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1223A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1324Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1424Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
12191PMorohashi
883A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1444Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1537Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
573Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
894henshall3
923Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
285Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
901Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
662Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
she3, she4Pinyin reading
saKorean reading
n2JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
32WaniKani level