こま

See also: ごま

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of こま – see the following entries.

【コマ】 [noun] 齣: (film, animation, manga) a frame of a comic or film [noun] (astronomy) coma, a cloud of dust around the nucleus of a comet [noun] 駒: (shogi, chess) piece Alternative spellings 齣, 駒

【齣】H [noun] (film, animation, manga) a frame of a comic or film [noun] (film, theater) an act or scene of a play or movie [noun] (music) a phrase or portion of a piece of music Alternative spelling コマ

【駒】S [noun] (rare) foal, young horse (or generally) horse [noun] (shogi, chess) piece, man [noun] someone controlled by another: a pawn, a puppet [noun] (music) bridge (the piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board)

【独楽】 [noun] a spinning top [noun] (by extension) a rigid object that can rotate freely around a fixed point [noun] a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) in the form or shape of a spinning top [noun] a hexagonal or octagonal top, decorated with images and/or writing, used for gambling

【高麗】 [prefix] [from 759] indicates something that was originally imported from the Korean Peninsula [proper noun] [from 759] (historical) the Goguryeo kingdom, located on the Korean Peninsula 37 BCE–668 CE [proper noun] [from 759] (archaic) Korea, the Korean Peninsula (used more commonly in compounds than as a standalone term) [proper noun] [from 759] (historical) a county in Saitama Prefecture (originally settled in the mid-600s CE by immigrants from the Korean Peninsula; abolished as an administrative entity in 1896) Alternative spelling 狛

(This term, こま (koma), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as こま, see Category:Japanese kanji read as こま.)