Illustration: A vegetable grower pauses beside a small neighborhood allotment and wipes sweat from their forehead with a long, narrow cotton towel. One end hangs freely from their hand, showing the fabric’s thinness, lightly frayed straight edge, and simple repeating bean pattern.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

手てぬぐい

tenugui

thin cotton hand towel

Example sentences

  1. 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

  2. 粗あらい平織ひらおりで長ながさのある手てぬぐいにはタオル地じの製品せいひんにはない利点りてんがある。

    Open and flat-woven Tenugui are longer than towels and have several advantages that towel cloth products do not have.

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

  3. 現代日本げんだいにっぽんでの日常生活にちじょうせいかつではタオルあるいはハンカチの使用しようが多おおいが手拭てぬぐいが廃すたれたわけではない。

    Although most present Japanese use towels and handkerchiefs in their life it does not mean that Tenugui towels have died out.

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

Kanji in 手

  • 手handOnシュ・ズKunて・て-・た-

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