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毛抜き (けぬき, kenuki) Japanese meaning: tweezers | Kotomora

毛け抜ぬき

け

ぬ

き

Freq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

1

tweezers; nippers

Common tool for plucking hairs or handling small objects.

毛け抜ぬきで眉まゆ毛げを整ととのえる。
I shape my eyebrows with tweezers.

Kanji

毛fur, hair, feather
抜slip out, extract, pull out
鑷pluck hair, tweezers

Related words

ピンセット
毛抜き is tweezers specifically for plucking hair, while ピンセット is the general term for tweezers or forceps used for handling small objects in many contexts, including medical ones.

Built from

毛け+抜ぬき

Written forms

毛け抜ぬきUsage100%
Standard kanji spelling for tweezers.
鑷けぬき
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form.

Etymology

Compound of 毛 (ke, 'hair') and 抜き (nuki, 'pulling out'), from the verb 抜く (nuku).