切る - "giri" - to cut. Following "mijin" means that "mijin" is noted as a style of cutting. It can seemingly be pronounced giri or kiri depending on what it follows but it is mostly giri and I will look into why it is kiri sometimes another day.

This seems to happen occasionally (手紙 - てがみ - letter as an example, formed of 手 - て and 紙 - かみ), it's called Rendaku. I believe it's used most often to make things easier to pronounce?

-maxim

2025-08-19

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