秤

Meaning

秤 centers on weighing and measuring weight: a balance, scale, or steelyard used to determine how heavy something is.

• 天秤てんびん

  (balance) scales

• 秤はかり
  N3

  scales; weighing machine

• 杠秤ちぎばかり

  large beam balance; weighbeam

• ねじり秤ねじりばかり

  torsion balance

• ねじれ秤ねじればかり

  torsion balance

• ばね秤ばねばかり

  spring balance; spring scale; pull tension gauge

• 両天秤りょうてんびん

  two alternatives

• 両天秤にかけるりょうてんびんにかける

  to try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow

• 両天秤をかけるりょうてんびんをかける

  to try to have it both ways; to play a double game; to have two strings to one's bow

• 化学天秤かがくてんびん

  chemical balance

• 天秤にかけるてんびんにかける

  to weigh (one thing against another); to compare (the relative merits of two options); to weigh (something) on scales

• 天秤ばかりてんびんばかり

  balance scale; balance

• 天秤宮てんびんきゅう

  Libra (7th zodiacal sign); the Scales

• 天秤座てんびんざ

  Libra (constellation); the Scales

• 天秤押してんびんおし

  pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making)

• 天秤棒てんびんぼう

  carrying pole; shoulder pole; milkmaid's yoke

• 木槽天秤しぼりきぶねてんびんしぼり

  (sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole

• 水秤みずばかり

  a water level

• 直示天秤ちょくじてんびん

  analytical balance; direct reading balance

• 秤にかけるはかりにかける

  to weigh on a scale

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