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

6 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
go-between, relationship
Kun:
なか
On:
チュウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
919 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 中核 【チュウカク】 kernel, core, nucleus, center, centre
  • 仲介 【チュウカイ】 agency, intermediation
  • 保革伯仲 【ホカクハクチュウ】 conservatives and reformists being neck and neck, balanced conservative and progressive strengths
  • 勢力伯仲 【セイリョクハクチュウ】 (the two sides) being evenly-matched in influence or power

Kun reading compounds

  • 仲 【なか】 relation, relationship
  • 仲間 【なかま】 companion, fellow, friend, mate, comrade, partner, colleague, coworker, associate, group, company, circle, set, gang, member of the same category (family, class)
  • 不仲 【ふなか】 discord, (on) bad terms (with)
  • 犬猿の仲 【けんえんのなか】 like cats and dogs, (on) very bad terms, relationship of dogs and monkeys

Readings

Japanese names:
ちゅん、 つづき、 なかつ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhong4
Korean:
jung

Spanish

  • mediación
  • relación

Portuguese

  • Relacionamento
  • entre (algo)

French

  • relation
  • médiation
  • intermédiaire
571 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
934 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
892 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
378 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1332 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
305 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
227 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1347 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1430 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1169 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
67 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
47 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
27 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
28 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
965 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
403 Morohashi
43 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
140 New Nelson (John Haig)
956 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1029 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
468 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2155 2001 Kanji
2a4.7 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-4 SKIP code
2520.6 Four corner code
1-35-71 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4ef2 Unicode hex code