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切り

きり

end, place to stop

Mnemonic

A clean place to cut it, which is not at all the same as being finished. The same きり as 切る cutting, stopped exactly where it is. Stop there and go home: きり.

Worth knowing

終わり おわり is the end of a thing. 切り is a good place to stop, which need not be the end at all.

Built from

cut
刀 a blade on the right. Everything to the left of it is what the blade goes through.

Words sharing these kanji

to cut important, valuable not at all, absolutely nothing to betray to be able to cut, to run out, to expire

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