ぎり

See also: きり

Japanese

Etymology 1

Clipping of ぎりぎり.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ぎり or ギリ • (giri) -na (adnominal ぎりな (giri na), adverbial ぎりに (giri ni))

  1. just barely

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of ぎり – see the following entries.
【切り】
[suffix] way of cutting
Alternative spellings
切, 限
【義理】
[noun] duty, obligation, burden of obligation. It can be defined as "to serve one's superiors with a self-sacrificing devotion".
(This term, ぎり (giri), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as ぎり, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ぎり.)
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