The Chinese word for to cut is
切

qiē

Chinese Definition

cut
1. 剪开、剪切、切入

切
1. to cut; to slice; to carve; to mince with a knife
2. to cut off; to disconnect
3. (mathematics) tangent
正切qiē - tangent
餘切qiē - cotangent
4. to switch
Synonyms: 切換
輸入法切qiē---來切qiē---去很麻煩。 - Switching back and forth between IMEs all the time is so annoying.
5. to be close to
6. to bite tightly; to clench
7. to correspond to; to match
8. (TCM) to feel the pulse
9. eager; ardent
10. urgent; pressing
11. must; by all means
12. main point
13. (phonetics) Short for 反切, fanqie
14. Used in 一切 (all; every; everything; anything)
15. (Mandarin, mostly, women's speech, colloquial) (An interjection conveying a slight sense of disdain or dissatisfaction.)
16. (Cantonese) to be in time for; in time
嚟得切cit3 - to (be able to) make it -

逃
1. to escape; to run away
2. to evade; to abscond; to dodge
3. 49th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "flight" (?)

插隊
1. v. to cut in line; to jump the queue
2. v. (historical, of educated urban youth) to join an agricultural production team and resettle in rural areas