Illustration: On the wooden counter of a small Japanese produce shop sits a traditional two-pan balance scale. An unusually knobbly sweet potato fills one suspended pan; several metal weights occupy the other, bringing the beam level.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

はかり

hakari

scale for weighing

Example sentences

  1. はかりの上うえにそれを置おいてください。

    Please put it on the scale.

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  2. 浴室よくしつの秤はかりで体重たいじゅうを計はかった。

    I weighed myself on the bathroom scales.

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  3. 荷物にもつをはかりの上うえにのせてください。

    Please put your baggage on this scale.

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