せつ
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Noun
1. eager; earnest; ardent; kind; keen; acute
Interjection
Abbreviation
2. OFF (on switch)
also きり
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (34 in total)
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
important; significant; precious; valuable; careful
kind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice
passionate; fervent; affecting; moving; touching
eager; earnest; ardent
eagerly; earnestly; ardently
cutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection
essential; vital
earnest; sincere; pressing; urgent; pertinent; appropriate
pathetic; plaintive
cut off; cut out; ablation; resection; surgical removal
unsuitable; inappropriate; improper
(cross) section (e.g. in a drawing); cutting plane
keen; acute; heartfelt
cotangent
autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator
entreaty; supplication
cutting in half; painting or calligraphy done on a half-sized piece of paper; half-size paper
strongly; keenly; vividly; sincerely; urgently
cutter; cutting machine; guillotine
urging; persuasion; declaration
tangent (trigonometric function)
cutting; cutting off; severing
grandmotherly solicitude for another's welfare; excessive solicitude
penis removal
ardent love
deep love
under pressure; urgency
persistent argument
syncopation
qieyun (ancient Chinese dictionary arranged by rhyme, displaying characters' meanings and representing their pronunciation with fanqie)
fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone
tracheotomy
scratch test; scarification
Examples (1 in total)
We are all eager for him to win the Nobel prize.