Translation guide
The English word "strip" has several distinct meanings. This guide covers the most common uses for learners: removing a covering or layer, taking off clothes, a long narrow piece of something, and a comic strip. Each meaning has different natural Japanese expressions.
To take off paint, wallpaper, bark, or a surface layer from something.
General verb for peeling or stripping off something attached, like a sticker, wallpaper, or paint. Transitive.
壁紙を剥がす。
Strip the wallpaper.
ペンキを剥がすのに時間がかかった。
It took time to strip the paint.
To peel or strip off an outer layer, often used for fruit, bark, or skin. Transitive.
木の皮を剥く。
Strip the bark off the tree.
More general 'remove', can be used for stripping away something unwanted. Slightly formal.
古い塗料を取り除く。
Strip off the old paint.
To remove clothing, either one's own or someone else's.
Standard verb for taking off clothes (shirt, pants, etc.). Transitive.
服を脱ぐ。
Strip off one's clothes.
彼はシャツを脱いだ。
He stripped off his shirt.
Literally 'become naked', used for stripping completely. Intransitive.
To strip off clothes forcibly or roughly. Can sound violent.
A strip of paper, cloth, land, etc.
A sequence of drawings in a newspaper or magazine.
General word for comics, including comic strips. Often specified as 4コマ漫画 for four-panel strips.
新聞の漫画
newspaper comic strip
Loanword from English, used for Western-style comic strips.
彼はコミックストリップを描いている。
He draws comic strips.
The loanword ストリップ (sutorippu) means 'striptease' in Japanese. Do not use it to mean simply taking off clothes; use 脱ぐ or 裸になる instead.
He stripped naked.
I was stripped of my clothes.
布の切れ端
a strip of cloth