Illustration: At a small Japanese confectionery workshop, an apprentice pushes a pointed bamboo skewer through three soft rice dumplings held over a tray. The exposed tip has just emerged from the last dumpling, clearly showing the puncture and the continuous path through all three.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

刺さす

sasu

to pierce, to stab

Example sentences

彼かれは針はりで指ゆびを刺さした。
He hurt his finger with a needle.
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彼かれは木きにナイフを刺さした。
He stuck his knife into the tree.
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私わたしは指ゆびにとげを刺さした。
I ran a splinter into my finger.
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Kanji in 刺

刺thorn; pierceOnシKunさす・ささる・さし

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