鎌

See also: 鐮 and 镰
鎌 U+938C, 鎌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-938C
← 鎋
[U+938B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鎍 →
[U+938D]

Translingual

Han character

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

References
  • KangXi: page 1316, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40693
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1816, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: 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, OC *ɡ·rem) : semantic 金 (“gold; metal”) + phonetic 兼 (OC *keːm, *keːms)

Etymology 1
simp. and trad.
 鎌
variant forms 䥥
⿰钅兼 nonstandard simplified form

Pronunciation

Definitions

鎌

  1. † arrowhead with square corners
    Synonyms: 棱, 箭鏃／箭镞 (jiàncù)
    ⇒ 磏

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 鎌 – see 鐮 (“sickle”).
(This character, 鎌, is a variant form of 鐮.)

References

Japanese

Kanji
鎌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology
鎌 (kama): a traditional Japanese sickle.
Kanji in this term
鎌
かま
Grade: S
kun’yomi

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

Pronunciation

Noun

鎌 (hiragana かま, rōmaji kama)

  1. a sickle
    • 1999 February 4, “ダークキラー [Dark Killer]”, in Vol.1, 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 arms, which have grown like sickles.
  2. a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama)
    • 1999 July 5, “音オト女メ [Sonicmaiden]”, in Booster 3, Konami:
      音 (おと)を扱 (あつか)うのが得 (とく)意 (い)なオトメ。音 (おん)符 (ぷ)のカマを使 (つか)い攻 (こう)撃 (げき)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.
  3. 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)
  4. (slang) a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking (from the way a kama blade bends)
  5. (slang) a person with a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking
  6. a category of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) featuring a sickle
  7. (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)
  8. (slang) excessive talkativeness (probably by sound association with the word 喧しい (yakamashii, “noisy”))
  9. (slang) an excessively talkative person
  10. (slang) a penis (probably from the way that a sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle)

Derived terms
Derived terms

Idioms
Idioms
  • 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

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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 (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. Trần (2004).
  2. Nguyễn (2014).
  3. Nguyễn et al. (2009).
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