割愛

See also: 割爱

Chinese

		cut off	to love; affection; to be fond of to love; affection; to be fond of; to like
trad. (割愛)		割	愛
simp. (割爱)		割	爱

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gē'ài, gé'ài

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄜㄞˋ, ㄍㄜˊ ㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): got³ oi³
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): kat-ài / koah-ài

(Teochew, Peng'im): guah⁴ ain³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gē'ài
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄜㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ge-ài
  - Wade–Giles: ko¹-ai⁴
  - Yale: gē-ài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: geay
  - Palladius: гэай (gɛaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ⁵⁵ ˀaɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Beijing dialect)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gé'ài
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˊ ㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gé-ài
  - Wade–Giles: ko²-ai⁴
  - Yale: gé-ài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: geray
  - Palladius: гэай (gɛaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ³⁵ ˀaɪ̯⁵¹/

Note:

gé'ài - Beijing dialect (Sun, 2018:
- page 533).

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: got³ oi³
  - Yale: got oi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: got⁸ oi³
  - Guangdong Romanization: god³ oi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːt̚³ ɔːi̯³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kat-ài
  - Tâi-lô: kat-ài
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kat'aix
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /kat̚³²⁻⁴ ai¹¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /kat̚³²⁻⁵ ai²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /kat̚³²⁻⁴ ai²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kat̚⁵⁻²⁴ ai⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-ài
  - Tâi-lô: kuah-ài
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koah'aix
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kua(ʔ)⁵ ai⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ ai²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: guah⁴ ain³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kuah àiⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuaʔ²⁻⁴ ãĩ²¹³/

Verb

割愛

to reluctantly give up what one treasures; to unwillingly relinquish one's favourite; to forsake
- 1999, 瓊瑤, 還珠格格第二部, episode 23, 刘丹 (actor):
  
  當初我奉父命進宮伺候皇上，我爹的確是懷著「忍痛割愛」的心情。 [MSC, trad.]
  当初我奉父命进宫伺候皇上，我爹的确是怀着「忍痛割爱」的心情。 [MSC, simp.]
  Dāngchū wǒ fèng fù mìng jìn gōng cìhou huángshàng, wǒ diē díquè shì huái zhe “rěntònggé'ài” de xīnqíng. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Synonyms

(Hokkien) 割疼

Derived terms

忍痛割愛 / 忍痛割爱

Japanese

Kanji in this term
割	愛
かつ Grade: 6	あい Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かつあい [kàtsúáí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ka̠t͡sɨa̠i]

Noun

割(かつ)愛(あい) • (katsuai)

parting reluctantly with; omitting reluctantly

Verb

割(かつ)愛(あい)する • (katsuai suru) transitive suru (stem 割(かつ)愛(あい)し (katsuai shi), past 割(かつ)愛(あい)した (katsuai shita))

to omit reluctantly, to leave out reluctantly
紙面(しめん)の都合上(つごうじょう)割愛(かつあい)いたします。
Shimen no tsugō-jō katsuai itashimasu.
Due to space constraints, we will omit this section.

時間(じかん)の都合上(つごうじょう)割愛(かつあい)せざるを得(え)なかった。
Jikan no tsugō-jō katsuai sezaru o enakatta.
Due to time constraints, I had to omit it.
- 2025 February 14, 階猛 [Takeshi Shina], quotee, “第217回国会　衆議院　予算委員会　第10号　令和7年2月14日 [217th Diet, House of Representatives, Budget Committee, No. 10, February 14, 2025]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎^[1], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library], retrieved 17 August 2025:
  ちょっと今手元にないので割愛しますけれども、桁違いの、何百億という、そういう調達コストもありますから。
  Chotto ima temoto ni nai node katsuai shimasu keredomo, keta chigai no, nan byaku oku to iu, sō iu chōtatsu kosuto mo ari masu kara.
  I don't have the data on hand right now so I won't go into detail, but there are procurement costs that are in a staggering range, running into the hundreds of billions of yen.
to part reluctantly with; to give up reluctantly

Conjugation

Conjugation of "割愛する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	割愛し	かつあいし	katsuai shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	割愛し	かつあいし	katsuai shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	割愛する	かつあいする	katsuai suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	割愛する	かつあいする	katsuai suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	割愛すれ	かつあいすれ	katsuai sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	割愛せよ¹ 割愛しろ²	かつあいせよ¹ かつあいしろ²	katsuai seyo¹ katsuai shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	割愛される	かつあいされる	katsuai sareru
Causative	割愛させる割愛さす	かつあいさせるかつあいさす	katsuai saseru katsuai sasu
Potential	割愛できる	かつあいできる	katsuai dekiru
Volitional	割愛しよう	かつあいしよう	katsuai shiyō
Negative	割愛しない	かつあいしない	katsuai shinai
Negative continuative	割愛せず	かつあいせず	katsuai sezu
Formal	割愛します	かつあいします	katsuai shimasu
Perfective	割愛した	かつあいした	katsuai shita
Conjunctive	割愛して	かつあいして	katsuai shite
Hypothetical conditional	割愛すれば	かつあいすれば	katsuai sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

“割愛”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
割	愛

Noun

割愛 • (harae) (hangeul 할애)

hanja form^? of 할애 (“forsaking, parting with”)