lián

sickle

Evolution

鎌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

𰾮 () 

lián

sickle

() 

lián

variant of |[lián]

Most common words with 鎌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

镰刀

sickle

scythe

开镰

to start the harvest

镰仓

Kamakura city in Kanagawa prefecture 神奈川縣|神奈川县[Shén​nài​chuān​xiàn], Japan

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]em

ljem

lián

sickle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3824th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+938C

Shuowen

“鎌,鍥也。从金,兼聲。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License