Illustration: In a small home kitchen, a cook serves soup from a deep pot using a ladle with a conspicuously long wooden handle. One hand wraps firmly around the handle, safely above the steam, while the metal bowl emerges full of soup.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

柄え

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handle, grip

柄 is read がら when it means a pattern. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 柄えは多おおくは竹製たけせいか金属きんぞくパイプでできている。

    The handle is mostly made from bamboo or metal pipe.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 扇部おうぎぶとそれを支持しじする柄えを備そなえる。

    An Uchiwa fan consists of two parts, fan part and handle part which supports the fan part.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 長巻ながまきは、ほぼ刀身とうしんと同おなじ長ながさの柄えを持もつ大太刀おおだちである。

    A nagamaki is a long sword with a handle almost as long as its blade.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 柄

  • 柄design; patternOnヘイKunがら・え・つか

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