Word Meaning 自腹を切る

じばらをきる jibara o kiru

自腹を切る is read as じばらをきる (jibara o kiru) and means to pay with one's own money.

Meaning

English

to pay with one's own money
to pay out of one's own pocket

Reading

Kana

じばらをきる

Romaji

jibara o kiru

Writing Variants

自腹をきる じばらをきる jibaraokiru

Stroke Sequence

5 Characters • 27 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Proverb ✓ Rank 119365 Priority S

Related Vocabulary

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自腹

じばら

paying one's own way

連木で腹を切る

れんぎではらをきる

to do something impossible

腹を切る

はらをきる

to laugh until one splits one's side

自棄っ腹

やけっぱら

desperation

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

杓子で腹を切る

しゃくしではらをきる

to do something impossible

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)

腹切り

はらきり

harakiri

自惚れる

うぬぼれる

to be conceited

自治

じち

local (governmental) autonomy

自信

じしん

self-confidence

自由

じゆう

freedom