Meaning

Primary

Gloves

Word Type

noun

Explanation

A hand sack is a sack for your hands... better put, these are gloves.

Reading

てぶくろ
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

The readings are both the kun'yomi vocab readings, so think of and as individual words, put together to make hand sacks. Watch out for the rendaku.

Context

Context Sentences

どうして裸んぼで手袋だけはめて走り回ってるの?あんたは本当に馬鹿ね。

Why are you running around naked with only gloves on? You’re such an idiot!

Kanji Composition