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一切

いっさい

not at all, absolutely nothing

Mnemonic

One cut straight through it with nothing at all left on your side of the line. I say いっさい, I have no part in that business: いっさい.

Worth knowing

Takes a negative: 一切〜ない, not in the slightest. Without one it swings round to mean the whole lot.

Built from

one
A single stroke. It doesn't get simpler than this.
cut
刀 a blade on the right. Everything to the left of it is what the blade goes through.

Words sharing these kanji

(the) most one once instant, for a moment what on earth, what the… once more for the time being, more or less together in one go (one) part single word, a few words number one, first

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