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Another Hanawa

鼻輪 (hanawa: bull’s nose ring)     nose + ring

Nowadays, the English term “nose ring” is much more likely to refer to a human than a bull! But in Japanese, this compound is exclusive to bulls. For humans, the term is 鼻ピアス (hana piasu: lit., “nose pierce”).

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