かなめ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of かなめ – see the following entries.

【要】4 [noun] [1254] a pin or rivet holding the spines of a folding fan together [noun] [1220] (by extension) a pivot, cornerstone, keystone [noun] [1612] a pin, often decorated, holding the handle to the tang of a katana [noun] [1712] Short for 要黐 (kaname mochi): a tree, Japanese photinia (Photinia glabra) [noun] [1906] (architecture) in a certain kind of traditional Japanese hip roof where the rafters splay out like the spines of a fan, the central point to which the rafter lines converge [proper noun] a female given name

【最】4 [proper noun] a male given name

(This term, かなめ, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as かなめ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as かなめ.)