鎌

See also: 镰

鎌	U+938C, 鎌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-938C

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

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

For pronunciation and definitions of 鎌 – see 鐮 (“sickle”). (This character, 鎌, is a variant form of 鐮.)

鎌

鎌 (kama): a traditional Japanese sickle.

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.

Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) かま [káꜜmà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]^[3]
- IPA^(key): [ka̠ma̠]

鎌 (hiragana かま, rōmaji kama)

a sickle
- 1999 February 4, “ダークキラー [Dark Killer]”, in Vol.1 (in Japanese), Konami:
  カマのように発 (はっ)達 (たつ)した腕 (うで)を振 (ふ)り回 (まわ)し攻 (こう)撃 (げき)してくる。
  Kama no yō ni hattatsu shita ude o furimawashi kōgeki shitekuru.
  It attacks with its sickle-like arms.
a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama)
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)

鎌 (かま)が切 (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 (かま)を掛 (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 (かま)に掛 (か)かる (kama ni kakaru): “to be caught by a sickle” → to be taken in by someone, to be fooled or tricked

↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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

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