Word Meaning 杓子で腹を切る

しゃくしではらをきる shakushi de hara o kiru

杓子で腹を切る is read as しゃくしではらをきる (shakushi de hara o kiru) and means to do something impossible.

Meaning

English

to do something impossible
to disembowel oneself with a ladle

Reading

Kana

しゃくしではらをきる

Romaji

shakushi de hara o kiru

Stroke Sequence

7 Characters • 34 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

Kanken 準1級 Proverb ✓ Rank 151767 Priority X

Related Vocabulary

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杓子

しゃくし

bamboo ladle

杓子定規

しゃくしじょうぎ

strict

杓子果報

しゃくしかほう

coming by ample servings of delicious food

杓子菜

しゃくしな

bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis)

連木で腹を切る

れんぎではらをきる

to do something impossible

詰め腹を切らされる

つめばらをきらされる

to be forced to bear the responsibility and resign

腹を切る

はらをきる

to laugh until one splits one's side

切腹

せっぷく

seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

お腹の子

おなかのこ

child one is expecting

区切り子集合

くぎりししゅうごう

delimiter set

区切り子

くぎりし

delimiter

区切り子集合引数

くぎりししゅうごうひきすう

delimiter set parameter