刻む
きざむ
to chop finely
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Examples
ねぎを刻んだ。
ねぎをきざんだ。
I chopped the spring onions.
キャベツを細かく刻んでください。
キャベツをこまかくきざんでください。
Please chop the cabbage finely.
先生の言葉を心に刻んでおきます。
せんせいのことばをこころにきざんでおきます。
I'll keep my teacher's words engraved on my heart.
Common patterns
- 細かく刻む
- to chop finely
- 刻んだねぎ
- chopped spring onion
- 心に刻む
- to engrave on one's heart
Memory tip
Not just cutting but cutting into many small pieces, so 細かく is usually somewhere nearby. The kanji's basic sense is "to carve", which gives the idiom 心に刻む, to engrave something on your memory.
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