round slice; cutting into rounds
Primarily used for cutting cylindrical foods (e.g., carrots, cucumbers, daikon) into round slices. Can also refer to the resulting round slice itself.
I cut the daikon into round slices and put them in the pot.
Add round slices of cucumber to the salad.
dividing into groups; stratifying
Figurative use, often in educational or organizational contexts, meaning to divide people into groups based on ability, age, or other criteria. Less common than the literal slicing sense.
They divide the students into classes by ability.
I cut the carrot into round slices and put it in the soup.
I decorated the rim of the glass with a round slice of lemon.
千切り is cutting into thin matchstick strips, whereas 輪切り produces flat round discs by cutting straight across a cylindrical food.
みじん切り means finely mincing food into tiny pieces, unlike 輪切り which keeps the food as whole round slices.
end; finish; stopping point · limit; bound; end · delivery date of a futures contract · finale of a Noh chant; end of an act; last performance of the day · trump card; king card in old karuta games · cut in go; separation of two groups · counter for slices; counter for cuts of fish or meat · only; just · ever since; after · remaining in a state; continuously
Compound of 輪 (wa, 'ring, circle') and 切り (kiri, 'cutting', from 切る). The literal meaning is 'cutting into ring shapes'.