VIZ's "Dust Whirlwind Cutter" keeps every load-bearing image intact — dust, spin, wind, cutting edge — which is unusually generous for a name this compact. The choice to render 削ぎ as "Cutter" rather than "Shave" or "Pare" trades away 削ぐ's more surgical connotation (the verb also describes whittling wood or trimming a bonsai) for a punchier SFX-style noun, consistent with how VIZ handles most Hashira finishing moves.
The technique's narrative job is unusually explicit for a Wind Breathing form: raising a wall of dust and grit around the blade isn't just visual flair, it is Sanemi's answer to opponents who try to vanish or misdirect him — the swirling debris makes displacement visible. That utility is why it's the single most repeated named technique in this dictionary's search of the corpus: a training-ground demonstration on Genya in Vol. 16, and no fewer than three separate deployments during the Infinity Castle siege (Vols. 19–20) against Muzan's shape-shifting final form, including one use as a decoy thrown mid-chain-swing specifically to blind Nakime's clairvoyance.
VIZ's own lettering is inconsistent across printings: Vol. 20 p.37 hyphenates it "DUST WHIRL-WIND CUTTER!!" where the Vol. 3-style unhyphenated "DUST WHIRLWIND CUTTER!" appears everywhere else — a small production quirk, not a translation choice, but a reminder that even signature moves don't always get typeset identically twice.