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
- —鎌海豚Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
- —草刈鎌grass sickle
- —鎌継ぎgooseneck tenon and mortise joint
- —鎌脚虫proturan (any wingless insect of order Protura)
- —大脳鎌falx cerebri; cerebral falx
- —鎌尾根arête; sharp ridge
- —鎌倉様Kamakura style; style of customs of samurai and their women during the Kamakura period
- —鎌かけtricking someone (into confirming or revealing the truth)
- —鎌倉時代Kamakura period (1185-1333)
- —鎌倉幕府Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333)
- —鎌倉五山the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōchi-ji, Jōmyō-ji)
- —いざ鎌倉case that something major happens; event of an emergency; when it comes to the crunch
- —南鎌海豚Peale's dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis)
- —鎌をかけるto trick someone (into confirming or revealing the truth); to ask a leading question
- —鎌倉新仏教new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period
- —鎌宝蔵院流Hozoin-ryu (school of sojutsu)
- —鼻白鎌海豚white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris)
- —腹白鎌海豚dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus)
- —鎌倉の戦いBattle of Kamakura (Genkō War; 1333); Siege of Kamakura
- —鎌状赤血球sickle cell