Memory phrase for the Kanji: 鎌

鎌

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Meaning sickle, reaping hook

Pronunciation


kama

Explanation

Left: metal/gold 金, right: combine, concurrently 兼 (A hand ナ/ヨ holds two rice plants 禾 concurrently.)

Mnemonic
 
(For harvesting) You need this metal when grasping two rice plants in your hand: A sickle.

Radicals

金 gold, metalThis radical is always on the left side of a character.
兼 concurrently, combineA hand holding two rice plants 禾 concurrently.
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 Vocabulary

鎌倉 かまくら  Kamakura (city close to Tokyo)

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