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Kanji Detail for 鍬 - "hoe"

鍬

  • Meaning

    鍬 means "hoe." Also associated with spade.

    1. Hoe - A farming tool for scraping soil.

    2. Spade - A farming tool for tilling soil.

  • Origin of 鍬

    金, metal, beside 秋, autumn, which lends the reading shu: the hoe. Read kuwa in Japanese — the tool that turns a field before planting.

    How to remember it: Metal 金 swung at the earth when the season 秋 demands it — the hoe.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 鍬

    • Verified meaning: hoe
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read くわ, くわさき, くわざき)
    • Also carries these associations: spade

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 鍬

    Surnames 鍬(くわ)Listen 鍬(くわさき)Listen 鍬(くわざき)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    hoe with long blade at acute angle

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    shovel

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    shovel; spade

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    shovel

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shoh(ショウ) ショウ

    shuu(シュウ) シュウ

  • Kunyomi

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    kuwa(くわ) くわ

    suki(すき) すき

  • Strokes

    tip

    17 strokes

  • Radical

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    金 (kane・kanehen)

  • Related Keywords

    hoe spade plow digging farming agriculture gardening soil cultivating tilling tool earth weeding ground

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