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Keyword
sickle
  • scythe
  • trick
Frequency
#1587
Strokes
18
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N1
Heisig
1725
Readings
かま100%
Mnemonic
Wheat gleams like gold in the field, and a farmer swings a sickle and cuts armfuls concurrently, then grins at his harvest.
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鎌かま倉くら
Kamakura (city)
Noun
鎌かま
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; part of a fish around the gills
Noun
鎌かま切きり
praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis)
Noun
鎖くさり鎌がま
sickle and chain (weapon)
Noun
鎌かま鼬いたち
cut in the skin caused by a vacuum formed by a whirlwind; mythical weasel-like creatures riding on whirlwinds and inflicting sharp, painless wounds
Noun
鎌かま首くび
sickle-shaped neck (e.g. snake, praying mantis); crooked neck; gooseneck
Noun
鎌かま倉くら彫ぼり
Kamakura-style carving
Noun
鎌かま形がた
sickle-shaped; falciform
Noun
利鎌とがま
sharp sickle
Noun