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.)