Illustration: At the kitchen table of a Japanese apartment, a resident lowers a long flower stem into the narrow mouth of a small vase. Their fingertips hold the stem just above the opening, while its lower section is already visible through the glass. A second flower lies on the table awaiting its turn.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

挿さす

sasu

to insert, to put in

Example sentences

彼かれはボタンの穴あなに花はなを挿さした。
He stuck a flower in his buttonhole.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
テレビのコンセントを挿さして。
Plug in the TV.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
斎宮さいぐうを迎むかえた天皇てんのうは斎宮さいぐうの額髪ひたいかみに手てずからツゲの櫛くしを挿さす。
After receiving Saigu, the Emperor personally puts a boxwood comb in her hair on the forehead.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 挿

挿insert; put inOnソウKunさす・はさむ

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