鎌

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See also: 鐮 and 镰
鎌 U+938C, 鎌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-938C
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鎍 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

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
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (兼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
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

trad. 鎌
simp. 镰*
nonstandard simp. 𰾮
alternative forms 䥥／镰

(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

Definitions

鎌

  1. † arrowhead with square corners
    Synonyms: 棱 (léng), 箭鏃 / 箭镞
    See also: 磏

Etymology 2

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

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 鎌
Kyūjitai
[1]
鎌󠄁
鎌+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
鎌󠄃
鎌+󠄃?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

鎌

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: れん (ren)
  • Kan-on: れん (ren)
  • Kun: かま (kama, 鎌, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鎌
かま
Grade: S
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 鎌 – see the following entry.
【かま】
a sickle
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)
area of a fish around the gills
(This term, 鎌, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ “鎌”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Etymology

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading.

Historical readings

The original reading is 렴 (ryeom) based on Middle Chinese 鎌 (MC ljem).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

鎌 (eumhun 낫 겸 (nat gyeom))

  1. hanja form? of 겸 (“sickle”)

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

鎌: Hán Việt readings: liêm (力(lực)鹽(diêm)切(thiết))[1]
鎌: Nôm readings: gươm[2][3][1], liềm[2][1]

  1. Nôm form of liềm (“sickle”).
  2. Nôm form of gươm (“sword”).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Trần (2004).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nguyễn (2014).
  3. ^ Nguyễn et al. (2009).
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