鎌

Translingual

Han character

鎌 (radical 167 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金廿X金 (CTXC), four-corner 8813₇)

1. sickle

References

• KangXi: page 1316, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40693
• Dae Jaweon: page 1816, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4244, character 9
• Unihan data for U+938C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鎌 (Yale lim4)

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Japanese

Kanji

鎌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: れん (ren) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: れん (ren) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: かま (kama)

Etymology

Wikipedia ^ja Wikipedia

鎌 (kama): a traditional Japanese sickle.

Kanji in this term

鎌

かま Grade: S

kun'yomi

From Old Japanese.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• か​ま (Atamadaka)
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ma̠]

Noun

鎌 (hiragana かま, romaji kama)

1. a sickle
2. a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama)
3. short for 火打鎌 (hiuchigama): a striker for lighting fires (from the way that pieces of a broken kama blade were used for this purpose)
4. (slang) a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking (from the way a kama blade bends)
5. (slang) a person with a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking
6. a category of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) featuring a sickle
7. (woodworking) short for 鎌継ぎ (kamatsugi): a hammer-headed tenon (from the way the sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle, similar to the sides of the hammer head on this kind of tenon)
8. (slang) excessive talkativeness (probably by sound association with the word 喧しい (yakamashii, “noisy”))
9. (slang) an excessively talkative person
10. (slang) a penis (probably from the way that a sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle)

Derived terms

Derived terms

鎌槍 (かまやり, ​kamayari): a kind of polearm with a sickle-shaped blade 大鎌 (おおがま, ​ōgama): a scythe 鎖鎌 (くさりがま, ​kusarigama): a sickle chain, a kind of weapon 草刈り鎌 (くさかりがま, ​kusakarigama): a sickle for mowing grass

Idioms

Idioms

鎌が切れる (かまがきれる, ​kama ga kireru): “the sickle cuts well” → to do things with authority, to get things sorted quickly and efficiently, to do things crisply and tidily 鎌を掛ける (かまをかける, ​kama o kakeru): “to apply the sickle” → to get something out of a person without them being aware (compare English to glean); to tempt someone, to draw someone out 鎌に掛かる (かまにかかる, ​kama ni kakaru): “to be caught by a sickle” → to be taken in by someone, to be fooled or tricked

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Korean

Hanja

鎌 (gyeom) (hangeul 겸, revised gyeom, McCune-Reischauer kyŏm, Yale kyem)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鎌 (Pinyin lián (lian2), Wade-Giles lien²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鎌 (gươm)

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