Illustration: In a residential garden, a small sparrow balances on the highest slender shoot of a young persimmon tree. Its weight bends the flexible tip slightly, while the heavier branches and trunk remain below. A gardener holding pruning shears has stopped working and looks up at the improbably light perch.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

梢こずえ

kozue

treetop, branch tip

Example sentences

  1. 上記理由じょうきりゆうに合あわせ、古来こらいの弓ゆみは木きから削けずり出だした単一素材たんいつそざいであり、根元ねもとが下したに、梢こずえ側がわが上うえに来くるように弓ゆみを持もつ。

    The ancient bows were created from one single material carved out from wood for reasons mentioned above, and were held with the root side at the bottom and top of the wood as above.

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

  2. 風かぜで木きの梢こずえが揺ゆれている。

    The treetop is swaying in the wind.

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  3. 鳥とりが梢こずえに止とまった。

    A bird landed on the tip of a branch.

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Kanji in 梢

  • 梢treetops; twigOnショウKunこずえ・くすのき

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