両りょう断だん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

cut in two; bisect

Used for physically cutting something into two pieces, often with a single decisive stroke. Common in the expression 一刀両断 (cutting in two with one sword stroke; also figurative for decisive judgment).

• 彼かれは刀かたなで縄なわを両りょう断だんした。

  He cut the rope in two with a sword.

• 一いっ刀とう両りょう断だんの決けつ断だんを下くだす。

  Make a decisive, cut-and-dried decision.