First opened Sunday, November 25, 2012
仕切る
しきる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to partition, to divide, to mark off
Shikiru is 仕 (shi, “do”) plus 切る (kiru, “cut off by a partition”).
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In a sentence
庭は柵で小道と仕切られている。
The garden is railed off from the path.
部長の都合が悪くなってしまったので、飲み会の日程は仕切り直しだね。
We'll have to organize the drinking party all over again as the section chief can't make it now.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From 仕(し) (shi, “do”) + 切(き)る (kiru, “cut off by a partition”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 仕切る (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.