Jisho

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18 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
Variants:
sickle, scythe, trick
Kun:
かま
On:
レンケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1587 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Kun reading compounds

  • 鎌 【かま】 sickle, leading question, trick question, sickle-and-chain (weapon), spear with curved cross-blades, gooseneck tenon and mortise joint, noisiness, part of a fish around the gills
  • 鎌倉 【かまくら】 Kamakura (city)
  • 大鎌 【おおがま】 scythe
  • 大脳鎌 【だいのうかま】 falx cerebri, cerebral falx

Readings

Japanese names:
かた、 かね
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lian2
Korean:
gyeom

Spanish

  • hoz
  • guadaña

Portuguese

French

  • faucille
  • serpe
  • faux
  • duper
1277 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4902 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1996 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2750 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2257 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1130 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2212 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1155 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1572 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1613 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40693X Morohashi
1760 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6326 New Nelson (John Haig)
1599 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1725 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2864 2001 Kanji
8a10.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-10 SKIP code
8813.7 Four corner code
1-19-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
938c Unicode hex code

Speed

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Kun reading compounds

  • 髭 【ひげ】 moustache, mustache, beard, whiskers, sideburns, whiskers (on a cat, etc.), feelers (on an insect, etc.), (chin) tuft, shadow (on a candlestick chart)
  • ひげ結晶 【ひげけっしょう】 (crystal) whisker
  • 濃いヒゲ 【こいヒゲ】 dense beard, thick beard
  • 無精ひげ 【ぶしょうひげ】 stubble, unshaven face, beard one has because one is too lazy to shave, 5-o'clock shadow

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zi1
Korean:
ja

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5262 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2697 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
45399X Morohashi
6812 New Nelson (John Haig)
2047 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2205 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3j13.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-10-6 SKIP code
7211.1 Four corner code
1-41-06 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9aed Unicode hex code