鎌
Translingual
Han character
鎌 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 金廿難金 (CTXC), four-corner 88137, composition ⿰釒兼)
Related characters
- 鐮 (Orthodox traditional form for the meaning "sickle")
- 镰 (Simplified form of 鐮 in mainland China)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1316, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40693
- Dae Jaweon: page 1816, character 16
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4244, character 9
- Unihan data for U+938C
Chinese
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 鎌 |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
Small seal script |
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Old Chinese | |
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譧 | *r'eːms |
賺 | *r'eːms |
尲 | *kreːm |
鹻 | *kreːmʔ |
歉 | *kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms |
槏 | *kʰreːmʔ |
鰜 | *ɡreːm, *keːm |
稴 | *ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm |
豏 | *ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms |
甉 | *ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm |
廉 | *ɡ·rem |
鎌 | *ɡ·rem |
鬑 | *ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm |
鐮 | *ɡ·rem |
簾 | *ɡ·rem |
薕 | *ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm |
蠊 | *ɡ·rem |
嬚 | *ɡ·remʔ |
溓 | *ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ |
嵰 | *kʰremʔ |
隒 | *ŋɡremʔ |
熑 | *ɡ·reːm |
濂 | *ɡ·reːm |
燫 | *ɡ·reːm |
兼 | *keːm, *keːms |
縑 | *keːm |
鶼 | *keːm |
蒹 | *keːm |
搛 | *keːm |
謙 | *kʰeːm |
膁 | *kʰeːmʔ |
嗛 | *kʰeːmʔ |
慊 | *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb |
傔 | *kʰeːms |
馦 | *qʰeːm |
嫌 | *ɡeːm |
鼸 | *ɡeːmʔ |
尷 | *kreːm |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *ɡ·rem) : semantic 金 (“gold; metal”) + phonetic 兼 (OC *keːm, *keːms)
Etymology 1
simp. and trad. |
鎌 | |
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alternative forms | 䥥/镰 ⿰钅兼 nonstandard simplified form |
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “same as etymology 2? from 磏?”)
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: lián
- Wade–Giles: lien2
- Yale: lyán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lian
- Palladius: лянь (ljanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /li̯ɛn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: lim4
- Yale: lìhm
- Cantonese Pinyin: lim4
- Guangdong Romanization: lim4
- Sinological IPA (key): /liːm²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Definitions
- † arrowhead with square corners
- Template:zh-syn
- See also: 磏
Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 鎌 – see 鐮 (“sickle”). (This character is a variant form of 鐮). |
References
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04352-001#26
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05411
- “鎌”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
Kanji
鎌
Readings
Etymology
Kanji in this term |
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鎌 |
かま Grade: S |
kun’yomi |
From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.
Pronunciation
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Noun
- a sickle
- 1999 February 4, “ダークキラー [Dark Killer]”, in Vol.1, Konami:
- カマのように発達した腕を振り回し攻撃してくる。
- Kama no yō ni hattatsu shita ude o furimawashi kōgeki shitekuru.
- It attacks with its arms, which have grown like sickles.
- カマのように発達した腕を振り回し攻撃してくる。
- a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama)
- 1999 July 5, “音女 [Sonicmaiden]”, in Booster 3, Konami:
- 音を扱うのが得意なオトメ。音符のカマを使い攻撃する。
- Oto o atsukau no ga tokui na otome. Onpu no kama o tsu kai kōgeki suru.
- A maiden proud of her ability to manipulate sound. She attacks with her musical-note-shaped scythe.
- 音を扱うのが得意なオトメ。音符のカマを使い攻撃する。
- 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)
- (slang) a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking (from the way a kama blade bends)
- (slang) a person with a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking
- a category of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) featuring a sickle
- (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)
- (slang) excessive talkativeness (probably by sound association with the word 喧しい (yakamashii, “noisy”))
- (slang) an excessively talkative person
- (slang) a penis (probably from the way that a sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle)
Derived terms
Derived terms
Idioms
Idioms
- 鎌が切れる (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 (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 (kama ni kakaru): “to be caught by a sickle” → to be taken in by someone, to be fooled or tricked
References
Korean
Hanja
鎌 • (gyeom) (hangeul 겸, revised gyeom, McCune–Reischauer kyŏm, Yale kyem)
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Vietnamese
Han character
鎌: Hán Việt readings: liêm (
鎌: Nôm readings: gươm[2][3][1], liềm[2][1]
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