切

fabric; cloth; material

traditionally patterned textiles

Rare term

fabric scraps

partition; divider

inscription (usu. in a circle); placing an object so that it touches the sides internally

edged tool; cutlery; shrewd businessman

cutting off the head

shaping the flowers and leaves of a plant

red traffic violation ticket (designating a serious violation)

Obsolete term; Colloquial

third-class ticket

traveling bag; travelling bag

Mathematics

tangent (trigonometric function)

bamboo chip

papercutting (performing art); cutting paper silhouettes

paper knife

Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Transitive verb

horizontal cut (esp. fish, plant, etc.)

Esp. 胴斬り

horizontal cut across the torso (sword technique)

かみきりむし is a jukujikun reading of 天牛

long-horned beetle; longicorn; beetle of the cerambycidae family

spring board; vaulting board; takeoff board

sweetened mochi flavoured with Japanese pepper

Food, cooking

flat-bottomed wooden bowl for preparing sushi rice

small wooden door at the rear of a noh stage

small garden gate

Medicine

notch; indentation; crena; incisure; foramen

Slang

instantly exploding into a rage; sudden outburst

haircutting; hair cutter

Dated term

prostitute cutting a customer's hair to show him her genuine feelings

Abbreviation

long-horned beetle

Japanese mythology

kamikiri; mythical creature said to secretly cut head hair

urgent; pressing

appropriateness; adequacy; aptness; relevance

cut-up charcoal

hillside farm; fallow ground

cutting; cutting off; severing