くまで

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of くまで – see the following entry.
【熊手】
[noun] a rake (garden tool), made of various materials; stylized and decorated bamboo rakes are also used as good luck charms for businesses (from the sense of gathering good fortune towards the user)
[noun] (historical) a weapon similar in shape to a gardening rake, used to catch and unseat an opponent on horseback
[noun] (by analogy from the sense of a tool used to gather something toward the user) an extremely greedy person
Alternative spelling
𨦈
(This term, くまで (kumade), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as くまで, see Category:Japanese kanji read as くまで.)
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