| 切 |
| 1. to cut; to slice; to carve; to mince with a knife | |
| 2. to cut off; to disconnect | |
| 3. (mathematics) tangent | |
| 正切qiē - tangent | |
| 餘切qiē - cotangent | |
| 4. to switch | |
| Synonyms: 切換 | |
| 輸入法 切qiē---來 切qiē---去 很 麻煩。 - Switching back and forth between IMEs all the time is so annoying. | |
| 5. to be close to | |
| 6. to bite tightly; to clench | |
| 7. to correspond to; to match | |
| 8. (TCM) to feel the pulse | |
| 9. eager; ardent | |
| 10. urgent; pressing | |
| 11. must; by all means | |
| 12. main point | |
| 13. (phonetics) Short for 反切, fanqie | |
| 14. Used in 一切 (all; every; everything; anything) | |
| 15. (Mandarin, mostly, women's speech, colloquial) (An interjection conveying a slight sense of disdain or dissatisfaction.) | |
| 16. (Cantonese) to be in time for; in time | |
| 嚟得切cit3 - to (be able to) make it - | |
