小槌

Chinese
 
small; tiny; few; young
 hammer; mallet; pestle
simp. and trad.
(小槌)		 小 槌

Pronunciation

Noun

小槌

  1. small hammer or mallet; gavel

Japanese
小槌 (kozuchi): various hammers or mallets, with the small hammers on the right.
小槌 (kozuchi): a gavel.
Kanji in this term
小 槌
こ
Grade: 1		 つち > づち
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 小 (ko, “small”) +‎ 槌 (tsuchi, “hammer, mallet”). The tsuchi changes to zuchi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

小槌 (hiragana こづち, rōmaji kozuchi)

  1. a small mallet or hammer
  2. (law, legislative) a wooden gavel

Synonyms

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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