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Kanji for Slash
The kanji for “slash” is 斬, read zan and written in 11 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
斬
slash
To cut down in a single stroke.
11 strokes On reading ザン、サン、セン (zan, san, sen) Kun reading きる (kiru)
Dictionary meanings: beheading, kill, murder
Readings used for names on Nazuke: zan
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