First opened Friday, April 19, 2013
打ち切る
うちきる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
- flat (heiban)
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 stop, to abort, to discontinue, to close
Uchikiru is 打ち (uchi, verbal prefix adding euphony or emphasis) plus 切る (kiru, “terminate an action”).
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In a sentence
この交渉を打ち切りたい。
We want to break off this negotiation.
両国は友好関係を打ち切った。
The countries terminated friendly relations.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From 打ち (uchi, verbal prefix adding euphony or emphasis) + 切る (kiru, “terminate an action”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 打ち切る (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
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.