つめ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of つめ – see the following entries.

【爪】S [noun] nail; claw

【詰め】 [noun] stuffing, packing [noun] end (esp. the foot of a bridge) [noun] (shogi, figurative) endgame [noun] Short for 煮詰め. sweet eel sauce [noun] lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony​ [noun] tea master [noun] (archaic) middle-aged women [noun] (typography) spacing of glyphs based on a percentage of their sidebearings, rather than a fixed unit or amount as used for kerning and tracking, which allows for proportional spacing of multiple glyphs at once

(This term, つめ (tsume), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as つめ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as つめ.)