Japanese word

かぎ

In your course · Chapter 5

Part of speech: noun
Level: A1
Frequency: No. 1,300 in the course corpus

Meanings

key
lock
key (to a problem, success, etc.)
clue
hook
hook bracket (Japanese quotation mark)
woman who earns her living by entertaining with song, dance and playing the shamisen
geisha who sings at parties

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