鎌 — sickle, scythe, trick

かま鎌 sickle

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 18 strokes

U+938C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1587 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1725 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

sickle
scythe
trick

word

かま kama Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

鎌(かま) kama sickle 鎌(かま) 倉(くら) kamakura Kamakura (city)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

おかね金 gold #167

かねる兼 concurrently

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#167 金 metal