Illustration: At a household workbench, an adult repairs a small wooden birdhouse. One nail stands halfway into a roof board beneath a raised hammer, and several loose nails lie nearby with their flat round heads and pointed shafts clearly exposed.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

釘くぎ

kugi

nail

Example sentences

その板いたに釘くぎを打うってください。
Drive the nail into the board.
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板いたにくぎを打うち込こんだ。
He hammered nails into the plank.
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釘くぎで彼かれの上着うわぎが裂さけた。
The nail tore his jacket.
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Kanji in 釘

釘nail; tackOnテイ・チョウKunくぎ

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