Keyword
sickle
Info
FrequencyTop 1800-1900
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 2
Heisig1725
Readings
かま
(85%)
がま
(14%)
Composed of
gold
concurrently
Mnemonic

For a farmer his crops are like gold, and he harvests multiple crops concurrently with a sickle.

Used in vocabulary (49 in total)
sickle; leading question; trick question; sickle-and-chain (weapon); spear with curved cross-blades; gooseneck tenon and mortise joint; (arch.) noisiness
Kamakura (city)
to raise one's head (esp. of a snake)
Kamakura period (1185-1333 CE)
sickle-shaped neck (e.g. snake, praying mantis); crooked neck; gooseneck
cut in the skin caused by a vacuum formed by a whirlwind; mythical weasel-like creatures riding on whirlwinds and inflicting sharp, painless wounds
Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333)
to trick someone (into confirming or revealing the truth); to ask a leading question
sickle and chain (weapon)
sickle-shaped; falciform
to trick someone (into confirming or revealing the truth); to ask a leading question
legs bowed in; sitting with heels spread apart
case that something major happens; event of an emergency; when it comes to the crunch
the five great Rinzai temples of Kamakura (Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōchi-ji, Jōmyō-ji)
sickle-shaped; falciform
sharp sickle
sickle handle; goby minnow (Pseudogobio esocinus); Oriental photinia (species of shrub, Photinia villosa); Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis); Joseph's-coat (species of amaranth, Amaranthus tricolor)
spear with curved cross-blades
cut in the skin caused by a vacuum formed by a whirlwind; sudden windstorm; gale
new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period
sickle cell anemia (anaemia); sickle cell disease
sickle cell anemia (anaemia); sickle cell disease
falx cerebri; cerebral falx
cutting grass and trees is prohibited
sickle cell disease; sickle cell anemia (anaemia)
praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis)
Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens)
carvings of the Kamakura style
two sickles used in Okinawan Kobudo
grass sickle
gooseneck tenon and mortise joint
gooseneck tenon and mortise joint
sickle-shaped moustache (often worn by servants in the Edo period)
Protura (order of wingless insects)
arête; sharp ridge
Battle of Kamakura (Genkō War; 1333); Siege of Kamakura
proturan (any wingless insect of order Protura)
Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus)
white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris)
Peale's dolphin (Lagenorhynchus australis)
dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus)
Examples (3 in total)
Which train takes us to Kamakura?
She's leading a happy life with her husband near the sea in Kamakura.
I have lived in Kamakura for twelve years.