- straight or circular throwing-knife used by ninja and samurai (loanword from Japanese 手裏剣 shuriken)
Characters
- 手 (手): hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- 里 (裏): variant of 裡|里[li3]
- 剑 (劍): double-edged sword; CL:口[kou3],把[ba3]; classifier for blows of a sword
Resources
- Wiktionary: 手里剑
- MDBG: 手里剑
- Examples with 手里剑 on Tatoeba
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