Translation guide
A pickaxe is a tool with a pointed end and a flat blade, used for breaking up hard ground or rocks. In Japanese, the most common equivalent is つるはし, but other terms exist depending on shape and use.
The standard tool with a pointed end and a flat blade, used for digging or breaking rocks.
The most common and general term for a pickaxe. Often written in hiragana, but can be written as 鶴嘴.
I dug up the hard ground with a pickaxe.
Loanword from German 'Pickel', often used for ice axes or mountaineering pickaxes. Can also refer to a regular pickaxe in some contexts.
I bought a mountaineering ice axe.
Kanji form of つるはし, rarely used in modern writing. Literally 'crane's beak'.
A pickaxe is a heavy tool.
A pickaxe specifically used in mining, often with a longer handle and heavier head.
つるはし is the standard Japanese word for a pickaxe used in construction or gardening. ピッケル is a loanword often associated with ice axes or mountaineering, but can also mean a pickaxe in some contexts. Use つるはし unless you specifically mean an ice axe or are in a gaming context where ピック is common.
I used a pickaxe to remove rocks in the garden.
You need an ice axe in snowy mountains.
He broke the concrete with a pickaxe.
The pickaxe is heavy.
マインクラフトでダイヤのピックを作った。
I made a diamond pickaxe in Minecraft.