Illustration: On the shaded veranda of a Japanese home, a grandmother opens a folding fan with a practiced flick and directs a breeze toward her flushed grandson. Its pleated paper leaf spreads into a semicircle, with slender bamboo ribs visibly meeting at one pivot near her fingers.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

扇せん子す

sensu

folding fan

Example sentences

  1. これは扇子せんすといって、こうやって開ひらくんです。夏なつの暑あつい日ひに使つかうんです。

    This is a folding fan, and this is how you open it. It’s for hot summer days.

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  2. 落語らくごでは一般的いっぱんてきに扇子せんすや手拭てぬぐいを小道具こどうぐとして用もちいる。

    Typical props of rakugo are a fan and a cotton towel.

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

  3. クジャクの羽根はねを用もちいた扇子せんすもある。

    There are Sensu products using peacock feathers.

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

Kanji in 扇子

  • 扇fan; folding fanOnセンKunおうぎ
  • 子childOnシ・ス・ツKunこ・ね

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