熊手
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熊手 (kumade): a metal gardening rake. 
熊手 (kumade): elaborately stylized and decorated rakes on sale for use as good luck charms for business.
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 熊 | 手 |
| くま Grade: 4 |
て > で Grade: 1 |
| kun'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 𨦈 |
Etymology
Compound of 熊 (kuma, “bear”) + 手 (te, “hand”).[1][2][3][4][5] The te changes to de as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
Appears in texts since 1185.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
- a rake (garden tool), made of various materials; stylized and decorated bamboo rakes are also used as good luck charms for businesses (from the sense of gathering good fortune towards the user)
- Synonym: (more general term) レーキ (rēki)
- (historical) a weapon similar in shape to a gardening rake, used to catch and unseat an opponent on horseback
- (by analogy from the sense of a tool used to gather something toward the user) an extremely greedy person
- Synonym: 欲張り (yokubari)
See also
- 馬鍬 (maguwa): a kind of heavy-duty soil rake (smaller hand-held variety); a harrow (larger version pulled by livestock or a tractor)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ “熊手”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN