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Vocabulary (12)

• 握髪吐哺

  あくはつとほ

  (a statesman making) extraordinary efforts to find and employ capable persons (persons of great wisdom)

• 握りこぶし

  にぎりこぶし

  clenched fist

• 握り箸

  にぎりばし

  grasping one's chopsticks the same way one might hold a walking stick (a breach of etiquette)

• 握力計

  あくりょくけい

  hand dynamometer

• 握斧

  あくふ

  hand-axe

• 一握

  いちあく

  handful

• 握飯

  にぎりめし

  rice ball

• 握りしめる

  にぎりしめる

  to grasp tightly

• かぎを握る

  かぎをにぎる

  to hold the key (to)

• 財布の紐を握る

  さいふのひもをにぎる

  to hold the purse strings

• 握らす

  にぎらす

  to let (someone) take hold of your hand

• 寿司を握る

  すしをにぎる

  to make hand-rolled sushi