I've seen the word for scissors "Hasami" written in hiragana " はさみ" katakana
"ハサミ" and kanji "鋏". which is the most common?
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How to write "hasami"
はさみ and ハサミ are both very common, and you can use whichever you prefer. はさみ is
definitely not a loanword, but there are words that are conventionally written
also in katakana. Animal/plant names are the best-known example (see
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/20840/5010) and
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/31148/5010)), but there are other
similar words (カンナ, ノコギリ, メガネ, クルマ, ...). Experts and enthusiasts may tend to
use the katakana version more often, but it's hard to generalize. When in
doubt, you can use a corpus like
[BCCWJ](https://ccd.ninjal.ac.jp/bccwj/en/index.html).

鋏 is not a joyo-kanji, and it's no longer common in modern Japanese. Some
native speakers may not be able to read it.
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I find a very useful tool for this sort of question is
[kanshudo.com](https://www.kanshudo.com/). If you look up a word there, and
then go to its "Details" page, it will list all the different ways the word
can be written and give a bunch of details about which forms appear to be used
most frequently, based on various corpus searches.

So if we look at [the kanshudo page for
はさみ](https://www.kanshudo.com/word/%E3%81%AF%E3%81%95%E3%81%BF/1573820), it
tells us that (based on various searches), it is written as はさみ about 35% of
the time, ハサミ about 30%, and for 鋏, it says "this form is rarely used".

Interestingly, kanshudo also lists another form which you didn't mention, 剪刀.
It claims this form is also used around 30%, but looking at the search result
data it lists it actually shows it has about the same number of Google hits as
the "rarely used" 鋏, so I'm not sure where they're drawing that conclusion
from. (My guess is that this form might be used heavily only in some specific
contexts or something). This does show one thing you should be a bit careful
of with this site, though. You do sometimes want to look at the actual numbers
listed, not just the summary percentage.

So in conclusion, based on kanshudo's (automatically generated) data, はさみ, and
ハサミ are both used about equally, but 鋏 is not really used much (and in some
contexts, 剪刀 may be common too, but it's a bit unclear from just that site
what those contexts are).
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