Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese living room, a grandfather demonstrates knitting to his teenage grandson. His hands hold two needles close together: one enters an existing loop while a strand of yarn wraps around its tip, ready to be drawn through.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

編あむ

amu

to knit, to weave

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは自分じぶんで編あんだセーターを着きていた。
She wore a sweater that she’d knitted herself.
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彼女かのじょは草くさを編あんで籠かごを作つくった。
She wove the grass into a basket.
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彼女かのじょは毛糸けいとでセーターを編あんでいる。
She is knitting a sweater.
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Kanji in 編

編compilation; knitOnヘンKunあむ

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