鋏

鋏 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 金大人人 (CKOO), four-corner 8413₈, composition ⿰釒夾)

1. tongs, pincers
2. dagger
3. sword

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1307, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40450
• Dae Jaweon: page 1809, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4205, character 7
• Unihan data for U+92CF

鋏

1. (of swords) the hilt

   長鋏歸來乎！食無魚。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   长铗归来乎！食无鱼。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Zhanguo Ce, circa 5^th – 3^rd centuries BCE

   Chángjiá guīlái hū! Shí wú yú.

   Long hilt sword, come on home ! There's no fish in the food !

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けふ (kefu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けふ (kefu, historical)}
• Kun: はさみ (hasami, 鋏)、はさむ (hasamu, 鋏む)、やとこ (yatoko, 鋏)、やっとこ (yattoko, 鋏)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

はさみ

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Scissors

Wikipedia

Originally the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 鋏む (hasamu, “to be tightly between two things, to be inserted in between””),^[1][2] itself apparently deriving from hasa (“narrowness between other things”, likely cognate with 細 hoso, “skinny, narrowness within the thing itself”) + auxiliary suffix む (mu, “to be or become like something”).

Cognate and homophonic with 挟, 挿 (​hasami): “being stuck in between other things”.

• (Tokyo) はさみ (Odaka – )^[2]
• (Tokyo) はさみ (Nakadaka – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

鋏(はさみ) • (hasami) 

1. a (pair of) scissors
2. (zootomy) pincers or claws as found on a crab, lobster, or other arthropod
3. a punch as used to make a hole in a piece of paper

The scissors and punch senses are also found spelled 剪刀.

The arthropod pincers sense is also found spelled 螯 and 鉗.

• 鋏(はさみ)を入(い)れる (hasami o ireru, “to put the scissors in → to cut with scissors; to punch a ticket; to trim vegetation or hair”)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

やっとこ

Wikipedia ^ja

Probably originally an abbreviation of synonym yattokobasami,^[1] with the yattoko portion possibly an alteration of 焼き床 (yakidoko, “the cooking bed of an oven, or the firing bed of a kiln”, possibly formerly read as yakitoko, literally “burning or cooking bed”), perhaps used as a dialect word referring to the forge; compare 火床 (hidoko, “hearth; a firepit, such as beneath a boiler”, literally “fire bed”).

• (Tokyo) やっとこ (Heiban – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

鋏(やっとこ) • (yattoko) 

1. pincers, nippers, pliers, tongs, or grippers, specifically those used to hold a metal object being worked in blacksmithing

• 矢床鋏(やっとこばさみ) (yattokobasami)

• 矢床(やっとこ)鋏(ばさみ) (yattokobasami, “blacksmith's grippers”)
• 鋏(やっとこ)箸(ばし) (yattokobashi, “blacksmith's tongs”)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130609060114/http://tool.kigasuki.com/tukamu.html -- in Japanese.

Probable variation from yattoko. Rare.^[1]

• IPA^(key):

鋏(やとこ) • (yatoko) 

1. (rare) pincers, nippers, pliers, tongs, or grippers, more specifically those used to hold a metal object being worked in blacksmithing

/kepu/ → /keɸu/ → /keu/ → /kjoː/

From Middle Chinese 鋏 / 铗 (kiɛp, “tongs, pincers”). Compare modern Cantonese reading gaap³.

• IPA^(key):

鋏(きょう) • (kyō) ^{←けふ (kefu)?}

1. pincers, scissors, tongs

Only found in compounds.

• 鋏角(きょうかく) (kyōkaku, “chelicera, the mouthparts of certain arthropods such as spiders”)

鋏 • (hyeop) (hangeul 협, revised hyeop, McCune–Reischauer hyŏp, Yale hyep)

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