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。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
   长铗归来乎！食无鱼。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

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

   Chángjiá guīlái hū! Shí wú yú. [Pinyin]

   Long hilt sword, come on home [with me]! There's no fish in the food [here]!

(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)

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

鋏(はさみ) • (hasami) 

1. a (pair of) scissors
2. 螯, ハサミ: (zootomy) pincers, claws, or chela 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”)

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 [yàttókó] (Heiban – [0])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ja̠t̚to̞ko̞]

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): [ja̠to̞ko̞]

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): [kʲo̞ː]

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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