Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese living room, an adult helps a child cut a long strip from a sheet of plain paper. The child's fingers sit inside the two handles of a clearly visible pair of scissors, with the pivot and both blades exposed as they close through the paper.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

はさみ

hasami

scissors

Example sentences

  1. はさみを取とって下ください。

    Get me the scissors, please.

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  2. このはさみは、よく切きれる。

    These scissors cut well.

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  3. この紙かみを切きるのにはさみが必要ひつようです。

    I need a pair of scissors to cut this paper.

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