割

gē

to cut

to cut apart

harm-sound (害) + knife (刂) = to cut apart

刂 (knife) drives the meaning: cutting or slicing apart. 害 mainly contributes the sound gē and carries no direct semantic role here.

害+刂→割
刂Knife (variant of 刀)Semantic
害HarmPhonetic

他用刀割断了绳子。

tā yòng dāo gē duàn le shéng zi。

He used a knife to cut the rope apart.

农民在田里割麦子。

nóng mín zài tián lǐ gē mài zi。

The farmer is cutting wheat in the field.

Words with 割

交割

jiāo gē

delivery (commerce)

割据

gē jù

to set up an independent regime

不可分割

bù kě fēn gē

inalienable

阉割

yān gē

to castrate

双曲余割

shuāng qū yú gē

hyperbolic cosecant, i.e. function cosech(x)

余割

yú gē

cosecant (of angle), written cosec θ or csc θ

黄金分割

huáng jīn fēn gē

golden ratio

任人宰割

rèn rén zǎi gē

to get trampled on (idiom)

分割

fēn gē

to cut up

分割区

fēn gē qū

partition (computing)

切割

qiē gē

to cut

割伤

gē shāng

to gash

More characters with 害

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