Illustration: Beside a farmhouse’s sunken hearth, a cook uses a folded cloth to settle an iron pot’s bail onto an adjustable hook hanging from a ceiling beam. The pot is suspended above the coals, with a clear gap underneath and no stand supporting its base.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

吊つる

tsuru

to hang, to suspend

Example sentences

  1. ランプが木きの枝えだから吊つり下さげられた。

    The lamp was suspended from the branch of a tree.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 蚊帳かやを吊つる。

    To hang a mosquito net.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 鐘楼しょうろう-2階建かいだてで、階上かいじょうに梵鐘ぼんしょうを吊つる。

    Belfry: A two storey structure with a bell suspended in the upper storey.

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

Kanji in 吊

  • 吊suspend; hangOnチョウKunつる・つるす

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