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絶

Level IV of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 483 / 2,608

Extinction

On’yomi
ぜつ
Kun’yomi
た
Radical
糸 Silk (Kangxi 120)

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 型 (Model), less common than 築 (Construct).

Thread on the left snaps against color on the right — the thread loses its color and fades completely, going extinct like a dying dye that vanishes forever.

In words

絶つ たつ to sever;to cut off;to suppress;to abstain (from)N1
絶えず たえず constantlyN2
絶える たえる to die out;to peter out;to become extinctN1

絶 is rank 483 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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