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割

gē

HSK 6 Character

What 割 means

1. to cut
2. to cut apart

Example sentences

• 汤姆割伤了自己。
  Tāngmǔ gēshāng le zìjǐ.
  Tom cut himself.
• 下周我会为你收割。
  Xiàzhōu wǒ huì wèi nǐ shōugē.
  I'm going to harvest for you next week.
• 我的孩子正在割小麦。
  Wǒ de háizi zhèngzài gē xiǎomài.
  My children are threshing wheat.
• 萨米手上的割伤犯痛了。
  Sami's cut bit his hand.
• 爱尔兰和英格兰被海分割。
  ài'ěrlán hé Yīnggélán bèi hǎi fēngē.
  Ireland and England are separated by the sea.
• 他割掉了树上的几根树枝。
  He cut some branches off the tree.

Words starting with 割

• 割舍gē shěto give up; to part with
• 割断gē duànto cut off; to sever
• 割据gē jùto set up an independent regime; to secede; segmentation
• 割裂gē lièto cut apart; to sever; to separate; to isolate
• 割草gē cǎomow grass
• 割让gē ràngto cede; cession
• 割伤gē shāngto gash; to cut; gash
• 割取gē qǔto cut off
• 割席gē xí(literary) to break off relations with a friend; to sever ties with sb
• 割爱gē àito part with sth cherished; to forsake
• 割接gē jiē(network) cutover; (system) migration
• 割损gē sǔncircumcision (Bible term)
• 割弃gē qìto discard; to abandon; to give (sth) up
• 割礼gē lǐcircumcision (male or female)
• 割线gē xiànsecant line (math.)
• 割肉gē ròuto cut some meat; to cut off a piece of flesh; (fig.) (coll.) to sell at a loss
• 割除gē chúto amputate; to excise (cut out)
• 割包皮gē bāo píto circumcise
• 割草机gē cǎo jīlawn mower (machine)
• 割股疗亲gē gǔ liáo qīnto cut flesh from one's thigh to nourish a sick parent (idiom); filial thigh-cutting
• 割腕gē wànto slit one's wrists
• 割袍断义gē páo duàn yìto rip one's robe as a sign of repudiating a sworn brotherhood (idiom)…
• 割鸡焉用牛刀gē jī yān yòng niú dāolit. why use a pole-ax to slaughter a chicken? (idiom)…
• 割韭菜gē jiǔ cài(fig.) (coll.) to fleece a group of people repeatedly…

Words containing 割

• 分割fēn gēto cut up; to break up
• 收割shōu gēto harvest; to reap; to gather in crops
• 切割qiē gēto cut
• 不可分割bù kě fēn gēinalienable; unalienable; inseparable
• 阉割yān gēto castrate; fig. to emasculate
• 宰割zǎi gēto slaughter; (fig.) to ride roughshod over; to take advantage of (others)
• 交割jiāo gēdelivery (commerce)
• 正割zhèng gēsecant (of angle), written sec θ
• 氧割yǎng gēto cut using oxyacetylene torch
• 余割yú gēcosecant (of angle), written cosec θ or csc θ
• 分割区fēn gē qūpartition (computing)
• 收割机shōu gē jīharvester (machine)
• 收割者shōu gē zhěreaper
• 图像分割tú xiàng fēn gēimage segmentation (computer vision)
• 女性割礼nǚ xìng gē lǐfemale genital mutilation
• 心如刀割xīn rú dāo gēto feel as if having one's heart cut out (idiom); to be torn with grief
• 忍痛割爱rěn tòng gē àito resign oneself to part with what one treasures
• 双曲余割shuāng qū yú gēhyperbolic cosecant, i.e. function cosech(x)
• 黄金分割huáng jīn fēn gēgolden ratio; golden section
• 联合收割机lián hé shōu gē jīcombine (i.e. combine harvester)
• 任人宰割rèn rén zǎi gēto get trampled on (idiom); to be taken advantage of

Characters that look like 割

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 彭Péngsurname Peng
• 溺nìto drown; to indulge; addicted to
• 剿chāoto plagiarize
• 剽piāoto rob; swift; nimble
• 鹑chún(bound form) quail
• 匐fúused in 匍匐

Sounds the same

Read gē, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哥elder brother
• 歌song; (bound form) to sing
• 胳armpit
• 鸽pigeon; dove
• 搁to place; to put aside; to shelve
• 疙used in 疙瘩
• 戈dagger-axe; abbr. for 戈瑞; (Taiwan) abbr. for 戈雷
• 咯(phonetic)
• 格used in 格登; used in 格格
• 纥knot
• 仡used in 仡佬族; Taiwan pr. qì
• 圪(phonetic)