thumb|Tattoo-marks on the hands of a Ryukyuan woman are traditional tattoos worn on the hands of Ryukyuan (mainly Okinawan) women.
thumb|Tattoo-marks on the hands of a Ryukyuan woman are traditional tattoos worn on the hands of Ryukyuan (mainly Okinawan) women.
==Etymology== The term comes from Okinawan , literally "needle thrusting", in turn from Proto-Ryukyuan *pazuki < *pari-tuki (tone class C). Cognates in other Ryukyuan languages include Miyako (Tarama dialect) and Yonaguni .
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).