ピン

ピン · pin · JLPT N3 · noun

pin

📌 Borrowed straight from English pin; also short for ピンセット tweezers

ピン is a loanword from English pin: a safety pin, push pin or hairpin. Watch for the clipped form too: ピンセット (tweezers, from Dutch pincet) is sometimes shortened in speech, and ピンぼけ means out of focus, from Dutch brandpunt.

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