cutout picture; paper cutout art
A picture made by cutting shapes out of paper and often pasting them onto a background; common in children's crafts and traditional art.
The children made cutout pictures with colored paper.
Standard kanji spelling.
Variant with simplified first kanji.
Compound of 切り抜き (kirinuki, 'cutting out') + 絵 (e, 'picture'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word transparently describes a picture made by cutting out shapes.