切

HSK 5#1757 by frequencyradical 刀

qiē["v","d","g"]

to cut; to slice; to carve; (math) tangential

qiè

definitely; absolutely (not); (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut!; to grind; (bound form) close to; (bound form) eager; to correspond to; (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切[fan3 qie4] system should be applied to the previous two characters)

Examples

切！

Tsk!

一切都没了。

It's all gone.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.