Illustration: At a kitchen table, a child carefully lifts one roasted bean from a shallow dish using only the tips of thumb and index finger. The bean is clearly suspended above the others, with the remaining fingers spread well away from it.

つまむ

tsumamu

to pinch, to pick up with fingers

Example sentences

息いきを止とめて鼻はなをつまみなさい。
Hold your breath and pinch your nostrils.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
若葉わかばをていねいに手てで摘つまむ。
Young leaves are carefully picked by hand
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
つまんでよく見みると、UFOの絵えが書かいてある。
When you pick it up and look closely, you can see a picture of a UFO on it.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

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