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消しゴム
けしゴム
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eraser
An eraser is a native “erasing” stuck to a Dutch-derived “rubber”.
Taken apart
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Written with 消
In a sentence
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of 消し (keshi, “erasing”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 消(け)す (kesu, “put out, extinguish; erase”)) + ゴム (gomu, “rubber”, from Dutch gom).”
Source: Wiktionary: 消しゴム (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.