How do you say "sold out" in Japanese?

Name: The Festival Stall Still Has a Queue. The Little Board at the Front Says the Food Ran Out Ages Ago.
Uploaded: 2026-08-28T18:13:51Z
Duration: 56 s
Description: Learn to say 売り切れ (urikire) — sold out. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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The Festival Stall Still Has a Queue. The Little Board at the Front Says the Food Ran Out Ages Ago.

To say sold out in Japanese, say 売り切れ (urikire).

Twenty minutes in a festival food queue in thirty six degree heat. That board has been telling you to leave the whole time.

売り切れ urikire sold out

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In this video

売り切れです。 urikire desu. It is sold out.

Kanji in this phrase

売り切れ: うりきれ
売切: うりきれ
完売: かんばい

Why this phrase

売り切れ means sold out, and it is the same word on a festival stall board, a department store food hall counter late in the evening, and a red lamp under a vending machine button. Vending machines clip it to 売切. Reading it from the back of a queue is worth twenty minutes on a hot night.