切きり抜ぬき

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

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

clipping; cutting; scrap

Refers to a piece cut out from a newspaper, magazine, or similar printed material, often kept for reference or in a scrapbook. Can also be used as a suru-verb meaning 'to clip out'.

新しん聞ぶんの切きり抜ぬきをスクラップブックに貼はった。
I pasted newspaper clippings into a scrapbook.

気きになる記き事じの切きり抜ぬきを保ほ存ぞんしている。

I save clippings of articles that catch my interest.

noun

cut-out; paper cut-out

abbreviation

Abbreviation of 切り抜き絵 or 切り抜き細工; refers to a shape or picture cut out of paper or similar material, often used in crafts.

See also: 切り抜き絵 · 切り抜き細工

子こ供どもと一いっ緒しょに色いろ紙がみで切きり抜ぬきを作つくった。
I made paper cut-outs with my child using colored paper.

noun

video clip; clip

colloquial

Colloquial use; refers to a short excerpt from a video, similar to 'clip' in English. Common in online contexts.

その動どう画がの面おも白しろい切きり抜ぬきがSNSで拡かく散さんされた。
A funny clip from that video was shared widely on social media.

Written forms

切きり抜ぬきUsage85%
Standard kanji spelling; commonly used in news and publishing contexts.
切きり抜ぬきUsage11%
Variant spelling; less common but still encountered.
キリヌキUsage3%
切きり抜ぬきUsage2%
search-only kanji form

Kanji

切cut, cutoff, be sharp
抜slip out, extract, pull out

Similar words

スクラップ
スクラップ is a loanword often used for scrapbooks or industrial scrap, while 切り抜き specifically refers to the act of cutting out or the resulting piece, especially from printed materials.
クリップ
クリップ is a loanword for 'clip' in the sense of a short video excerpt, similar to sense 3 of 切り抜き, but クリップ is more direct and common in digital contexts.

Etymology

Compound of 切り (continuative form of 切る, 'to cut') + 抜き (continuative form of 抜く, 'to extract'). Literally 'cut and extract', referring to the action of cutting something out from a larger whole.