Illustration: At a kitchen table before leaving home, an adult holds one forearm out while a child fastens a wristwatch around the narrow joint immediately behind the hand. The adult bends the hand gently upward, making the wrist’s location and movement clear, while the forearm rests on the tabletop.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

手て首くび

tekubi

wrist

Example sentences

  1. 転ころんで手首てくびを痛いためました。

    I fell down and hurt my wrist.

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  2. 彼かれは私わたしの手首てくびを掴つかんだ。

    He seized me by the wrist.

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  3. 転ころんだ時とき、手首てくびを折おった。

    I broke my wrist when I fell on it.

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Kanji in 手首

  • 手handOnシュ・ズKunて・て-・た-
  • 首neck; counter for songs and poemsOnシュKunくび

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