鎌

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

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

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
鎌
かま
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 鎌 – see the following entry.
【かま】
[noun] a sickle
[noun] a sickle-shaped weapon, such as a polearm with a sickle-shaped blade, or a 鎖鎌 (kusarigama)
[noun] 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)
[noun] (slang) a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking (from the way a kama blade bends)
[noun] (slang) a person with a perverse or bent tendency or way of thinking
[noun] a category of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) featuring a sickle
[noun] (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)
[noun] (slang) excessive talkativeness (probably by sound association with the word 喧しい (yakamashii, “noisy”))
[noun] (slang) an excessively talkative person
[noun] (slang) a penis (probably from the way that a sickle blade sticks out perpendicular to the handle)
[noun] 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), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024

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

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