It’s the noun へま + る to turn it into a verb and then conjugated to the past tense. It’s a lot like verbing nouns in English (see what I did there? ) very non standard but easily understood if you’re familiar with the language because of how verbs and conjugation work.
Heres a link on how it’s done with loan words that covers the basic principles
If I had to say,Ι think it’s meaning 10 or 12 here:
Hail ichi.moe! It’s a godsend for figuring this sort of stuff out
Also, the っ in this manga are particularly big, it seems. On page 21, it says とった, not とつた, so I removed とつる from the spreadsheet The way the katakana ロ is written threw me for a loop as well!
those girls don’t know that she is a robot even if the winding thing is on her back, but i guess that is part of the humour
And the image search did help. I guess i was more accustomed to gold capped teeth or older amalgam filling(mercury with any metal, which can be silver).
thanks!
The girls know that she is a robot (thats why they start this whole thing in the first place - they are curious if Nano has some built in calculator or something like that). It’s Nano who is trying to hide it and doesn’t realize that everyone already knows.
On page 27 Yukko says ロボだから - “because (she is a) robot” and then comes up with this plan to make her do the calculation, in case you missed that.
I remember learning it (the word, although not the kanji) from the first episode of K-On!, when students are trying to recruit Yui to their after school clubs, and one is the 「しゅうざんぶ」. Clearly the abacus has its place in Japanese high schools!
Haha I actually just watched that for the first time a few days ago but I hadn’t learned the word yet so it didn’t stick out. Considering there are probably a few thousand words that I’ve SRS’d and have yet to come across more than once, by my personal experience I guess this is a super common word.
Ahhh, I also learned the word for ‘abacus’ in the Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Course! I didn’t think much of it; I figured it was a convenient way to let me practise those kanji.