鋏
scissors
Readings
On'yomi
- キョウ
Kun'yomi
- はさみ
- はさ.む
- つるぎ
Meaning
鋏 centers on scissors: a metal tool with two crossing blades used for cutting.
Most common words using 鋏
20 of 24- 鋏はさみN4
scissors; shears; clippers
- キッチン鋏キッチンばさみ
kitchen scissors; cooking shears
- スキ鋏すきばさみ
thinning scissors; thinning shears
- ピンキング鋏ピンキングばさみ
pinking shears
- 入鋏にゅうきょう
(ticket) punching
- 刈り込み鋏かりこみばさみ
hedge clippers
- 剪定鋏せんていばさみ
pruning shears
- 和鋏わばさみ
U-shaped scissors with no place to put one's fingers
- 握り鋏にぎりばさみ
U-shaped scissors with no place to put one's fingers; shears
- 改札鋏かいさつはさみ
ticket punch
- 木鋏きばさみ
pruning shears
- 枝を鋏むえだをはさむ
to trim a tree; to prune a tree's branches
- 止め鋏とめばさみ
final cut severing a wrestler's top-knot in his retirement ceremony
- 紙鋏かみばさみ
scissors for cutting paper
- 花鋏はなばさみ
florist's scissors; flower scissors
- 金鋏かなばさみ
tongs; shears
- 鋏やっとこ
pincers; nippers; pliers
- 鋏こんきょうこん
notch in a train ticket (from a ticket punch)
- 鋏むはさむ
to clip; to snip
- 鋏虫はさみむし
earwig
Study
Etymology
鋏 combines 金 (metal) with 夾, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of pinching or holding between two sides, as scissors do.
Meaning mnemonic
The left side is metal 金, and the right side 夾 looks like two blades crossing. Picture metal blades pinching together to cut: scissors.
Reading mnemonic
For キョウ, imagine a pair of scissors cutting through a stack of papers with a sharp 'kyo' sound: kyo -> キョウ.