kiseru; traditional Japanese tobacco pipe
A long-stemmed pipe with a small metal bowl and mouthpiece, used for smoking finely shredded tobacco (kizami). The word is a loan from Khmer 'khsier'.
from Khmer khsier
My grandfather used to smoke tobacco with a kiseru.
fare evasion by buying only the first and last segments
Slang for a type of train fare evasion: buying a ticket for the first station and another for the last station, skipping the middle. The shape of the ticket usage resembles a kiseru pipe (metal only at the ends). Often used in compounds like キセル乗車.
Kiseru riding is a type of fare evasion.
羅宇 is only the bamboo stem of a kiseru pipe, while 煙管 refers to the whole pipe, including the metal bowl and mouthpiece.
long kiseru (tobacco pipe)
Katakana spelling is common; the word is usually written in kana.
Kanji spelling for the tobacco pipe; rare and mainly literary or historical. The reading is a gikun (special kanji reading).
Hiragana spelling; the word is usually written in kana.
Borrowed from Khmer 'khsier' (pipe). The fare evasion sense comes from the resemblance of the ticket pattern to a kiseru pipe, which has metal only at the ends.