Meaning

Primary

Discount

Word Type

noun, verbal noun, の adjective

Explanation

Divide that price and pull it apart. You only have to pay for one part! What a discount.

Reading

わりびき
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

The readings are the ones you learned with the kanji. from ひき kind of just gets stuffed into the and hidden away like that strange collection of fingernails you have hidden in your closet drawer inside of a 35mm film container. Also remember that the reading gets changed to びき here because of that pesky rendaku.

Context

Context Sentences

二割引きの値札が付いてたはずですよ。

I'm sure that it had a tag saying 20% off.

このスーパーでは、火曜日は学生証を持っている人は5%割引になります。

At this supermarket, on Tuesdays, people who have a student ID get a 5% discount.

あの大きな型の冷蔵庫を買いたいんですが、一割でもいいんで割引してもらえませんか。

I want to buy that large-sized refrigerator. Would you please add a discount? 10% would be enough for me.

ちょうどホームページへ割引クーポンの追加をしようと思ってたところだよ。

I’ll set about adding a discount coupon to the website.

Kanji Composition