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treatment, handling, dealing with
The way something or someone is treated, managed, or dealt with. Applies to both physical handling of objects and the manner in which people or matters are dealt with.
この機械は扱いが難しい。
This machine is difficult to handle.
子供扱いされるのは嫌だ。
I hate being treated like a child.
個人情報の扱いには十分注意してください。
Please be very careful in handling personal information.
扱い is the noun form of 扱う (to handle, to deal with). It is extremely versatile and appears in many compound expressions.
PATTERN:
- 〜扱い: treated as ~ (used as a suffix)
- 扱いが難しい / 扱いにくい: hard to handle
- 扱いに困る: to have trouble dealing with
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 特別扱い: special treatment
- 子供扱い: treating someone like a child
- 人間扱いされない: not treated as a human being
- 取り扱い: handling, management (compound noun)
- 取り扱い注意: handle with care
- 扱い方: how to handle, way of dealing with