こま

See also: ごま

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of こま – see the following entries.

【コマ】	[noun] (astronomy) coma, a cloud of dust around the nucleus of a comet [noun] (optics) coma, comatic aberration

【齣】H	[noun] (film, animation, manga) a frame or panel of a comic or film [noun] (film, theater) an act or scene of a play or movie [noun] (music) a phrase or portion of a piece of music Alternative spelling コマ

【駒】S	[noun] (rare) foal, young horse (or generally) horse [noun] (shogi, chess) piece, man [noun] someone controlled by another: a pawn, a puppet [noun] (music) bridge (the piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board)

【独楽】	[noun] a spinning top [noun] (by extension) a rigid object that can rotate freely around a fixed point [noun] a 家(か)紋(もん) (kamon, “family crest”) in the form or shape of a spinning top [noun] a hexagonal or octagonal top, decorated with images and/or writing, used for gambling

【高麗】

[prefix] [from 759] indicates something that was originally imported from the Korean Peninsula

[proper noun] [from 759] (historical) Goguryeo (an ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 37 BCE to 668 CE; at its maximum covering all of North Korea, the northern part of South Korea, parts of Manchuria in northeast China, and parts of Primorsky Krai in Russia)

[proper noun] [from 759] (archaic) Korea, the Korean Peninsula (used more commonly in compounds than as a standalone term)

[proper noun] [from 759] (historical) a county in Saitama Prefecture (originally settled in the mid-600s CE by immigrants from the Korean Peninsula; abolished as an administrative entity in 1896)

Alternative spelling
狛

【小間】

[noun] a small room; a narrow room

[noun] a small amount of free time, a short break

[noun] (tea ceremony) a tea ceremony room smaller than 4¹⁄₂ tatami mats

[noun] (architecture) space between rafters; space between rafter and joist

[noun] (architecture) the visible portion of a roof tile

[noun] (historical) a unit of land area used to calculate a tax levied in Edo, equal to about 20 tsubo, or about 66 square meters

[noun] (uncommon) something small, narrow

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

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