noun
cutting straight down; cleaving in two
Describes a forceful downward cut that splits something cleanly in half, often used in martial arts or dramatic descriptions of cutting a person or object.
刀で唐竹割りにする。
To cleave something in two with a sword.
彼は敵を唐竹割りにした。
He cleaved his enemy in two.
Standard kanji spelling.
Variant without okurigana.
Rarely used kanji form.
Compound of 唐竹 (からたけ, 'Chinese bamboo') and 割り (わり, 'splitting'). The imagery is of splitting bamboo cleanly down the middle, applied metaphorically to cutting a person or object straight down.