Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 5

JLPT level: N3

784 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: discontinue, sever, cut off, abstain, interrupt, suppress, be beyond, without match, peerless, unparalleled

Kunyomi: た.える た.やす た.つ

Onyomi: ゼツ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: いとへん

Meaning: silk

Strokes: 6

Examples

Examples with audio

版(ぜっぱん)   out of print

対(ぜったい)   absolute, unconditional

好(ぜっこう)   best, perfect

妙な(ぜつみょうな)   miraculous

交する(ぜっこうする)   break off friendship

望する(ぜつぼうする)   despair, give up hope]

滅する(ぜつめつする)   exterminate, annihilate

する(ちゅうぜつする)   interrupt, abort

する(きぜつする)   faint [v.i.]

やす(たやす)   exterminate, eradicate [v.t.]

える(たえる)   go extinct, cease, expire [v.i.]

つ(たつ)   sever, cut [v.t.]

Onyomi Examples

ゼツ starting field which contains the November and/or December 20-point card

ゼツエン breaking off relations, disconnection, insulation (esp. electrical), isolation

キゼツ faint, fainting, losing consciousness

チョウゼツ transcendence, excellence, superiority

Kunyomi Examples

える たえる to die out, to peter out, to become extinct, to cease, to be stopped, to be discontinued, to be cut off

えることなく たえることなく unceasing, relentless

やす たやす to exterminate, to eradicate, to wipe out, to put an end to, to let (fire) go out, to let die (e.g. flowers), to run out of

断つ たつ to sever, to cut off, to suppress, to eradicate, to exterminate, to abstain (from), to give up