Illustration: On the floor of a family living room, a parent repairs a simple hopping toy with its outer shell set beside it. The exposed mechanism has a large metal coil between a flat base and the toy’s upper platform.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ばね

bane

spring

Here it means a mechanical spring. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

そのばね１個こで車くるまの全重量ぜんじゅうりょうを支ささえている。
That one spring carries the whole weight of the car.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
人形にんぎょうの動作どうさはぜんまいばねとカム、糸いとによって制御せいぎょされている。
The movements of the doll are controlled only with coil springs, cams, and strings.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
このペンはばねが壊こわれて、芯しんが出でない。
The spring in this pen is broken, so the tip won’t come out.
Written by AI for Bebop

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