読よみ切きり

noun

finishing reading

Refers to the act of reading something through to the end, often used in contexts like reading a book or document completely.

• この小しょう説せつは長ながいので、読よみ切きりには時じ間かんがかかる。

  This novel is long, so it takes time to finish reading it.

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

one-shot; complete story; non-serialized story

In manga, magazines, or literature, a self-contained story published in a single installment, not part of a series.

• この雑ざっ誌しには読よみ切きりの漫まん画ががいくつか載のっている。

  This magazine contains several one-shot manga.

• 彼かれの読よみ切きり作さく品ひんが新しん人じん賞しょうを受じゅ賞しょうした。

  His one-shot work won the newcomer award.

noun

breaks and pauses (in a sentence)

Rare usage referring to punctuation or natural pauses when reading a sentence aloud; more commonly expressed as 句読 (くとう).

See also: 句読

• 古こ文ぶんでは、読よみ切きりが現げん代だいと異ことなる場ば合あいがある。

  In classical texts, the breaks and pauses may differ from modern usage.