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    3. お手つき

    お手つき

    お​手てつ​き​

    touching a wrong card (in karuta)

    NTNounGamesKanji Vocab12 strokes

    お手付き御手付き

    おてつき

    Noun

    1.
    touching a wrong card (in karuta), buzzing too early (in a quiz)
    2.
    making a mistress of a servant, mistress (who is one's servant)
    dated term
    3.
    foul (comp. karuta), touching a card which is not in the same territory as the correct card
    card games

    Stroke 0 / 12

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    Characters that make up this word

    手
    て・て-・-て・た-…(2)
    hand
    Kanji
    お
    o
    Kana
    つ
    tsu
    Kana
    き
    ki
    Kana
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