noun
A tool for cutting wood or other materials, with a toothed blade.
のこぎりで板を切る。
Cut the board with a saw.
彼は鋸を研いでいる。
He is sharpening the saw.
Standard kanji spelling; high priority.
Katakana spelling, sometimes used in technical or emphatic contexts.
Kana spelling is common and marked as usually written using kana alone.
The kanji 鋸 is a phono-semantic compound: 金 (metal) + 居 (phonetic, also suggesting 'to be placed'). The reading のこぎり is of native Japanese origin, likely from のこ (saw) + きり (cutting).