Kanji1 / 18
鎌 kanji
sickle, scythe, trick
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 18
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
レンケン
Kun readings
かま
Variant forms
鐮Words with 鎌
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鎌Popularsickle; 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PopularKamakura (city)
- —鎌首sickle-shaped neck (e.g. snake, praying mantis); crooked neck; gooseneck
- —鎌足legs bowed in; sitting with heels spread apart
- —鎌鼬cut in the skin caused by a vacuum formed by a whirlwind; mythical weasel-like creatures riding on whirlwinds and inflicting sharp, painless wounds
- —鎌形sickle-shaped; falciform
- —鎖鎌sickle and chain (weapon)
- —大鎌scythe
- —鎌槍spear with curved or straight cross-blades
- —草鎌grass sickle
- —鋸鎌toothed sickle
- —鎌髭sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period)
- —鉈鎌billhook
- —鎌柄pike gudgeon (Pseudogobio esocinus); Oriental photinia (Photinia villosa); Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis); Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor); tampala; sickle handle
- —鎌状sickle-shaped; falciform
- —鎌風cut in the skin caused by a vacuum formed by a whirlwind; sudden windstorm; gale
- —鎌止めcutting grass and trees is prohibited
- —鎌入れharvesting
- —鎌倉彫Kamakura-style carving
- —二丁鎌two sickles used in Okinawan Kobudo