つまみ – vocab dash

つまみ

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Meanings

Noun

1. knob; handle; button (Usually kana)

2. snack (to have with a drink); side dish (Usually kana)

Suffix

3. a pinch (e.g. of salt) (Usually kana)

Noun

4. (file) handle

Noun

Suffix

5. picking; harvesting

Other spellings

摘つまみ摘つまみ撮つまみ抓つまみ

Kanji in other spellings

Pitch accent

つまみ

Used in vocabulary

uncouth person; disgusting fellow; nuisance; outcast; bore

Noun

pinch (of something); one piece; easy victory

Noun

snack (to have with a drink); side dish

Noun

rape seedlings; pinched-off vegetable seedlings; young edible greens

Noun

Examples5

このつまみを回まわすことでテレビの色いろを調ちょう節せつできます。

You can adjust the color on the TV by turning this knob.

ビールの摘つまみがほしい。

I would like to have something to munch on with my beer.

いちごを摘つまみに行いったんです。

We went strawberry-picking.

春はるが来くると人ひと々びとはのぐさを摘つまみに出でかけます。

When spring comes, people go out to pick wild plants.

照しょう明めいはツマミ一ひとつで光こう量りょうを変かえられるようになっていて好すきな明あかるさを演えん出しゅつ出で来きるようになっている。

The lighting was set up to have the intensity controlled by one knob so you could produce the brightness as you want.