Japanese

Noun

文鎮 ‎(hiragana ぶんちん, romaji bunchin)

1. paperweight
   • 1912, 夏目漱石, 彼岸過迄:

     彼 (かれ)は机 (つくえ)の上 (うえ)にあった重 (おも)い文鎮 (ぶんちん)を取 (と)って、突然 (とつぜん)これで人 (ひと)が殺 (ころ)せるだろうかと尋 (たず)ねた。

     Kare wa tsukue no ue ni atta omoi bunchin o totte, totsuzen kore de hito ga koroseru darō ka to tazuneta.

     He picked up the heavy paperweight on top of the desk and asked out of the blue if one could kill a person with it.