"熊" meaning in Japanese

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Character

Forms: “Jōyō” kanji [common]
  1. bear Tags: kanji
    Sense id: en-熊-ja-character-vJi7UOgJ Categories (other): Common kanji, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations Derived forms: 牡熊 (osukuma) (ruby: (おす), (くま)) (english: a male bear), 子熊 (kokuma) (ruby: (), (くま)) (english: a bear cub), 小熊 (kokuma) (ruby: (), (くま)) (english: a species of small bear), 白熊: a white bear (shirokuma) (ruby: (しろ), (くま)) (english: polar bear), 灰色熊 (haīrokuma) (ruby: (はい), (いろ), (くま)) (english: a grizzly bear), 北極熊 (hokkyokuguma) (ruby: (ほっ), (きょく), (ぐま)) (english: a polar bear), 黒熊 (kurokuma) (ruby: (くろ), (くま)) (english: the Asian black bear), 熊笹: bamboo grass (kumazasa) (ruby: (くま), (ざさ)) (taxonomic: Sasa veitchii), 熊葛: common vervain (kumatsuzura) (ruby: (くま), (つづら)) (taxonomic: Verbena officinalis), 熊手 (kumade) (ruby: (くま), ()) (english: bamboo rake), 熊襲 (Kumaso) (ruby: (くま), ()) (english: the Kumaso people), 雌熊: a female bear (mesukuma), a she-bear, 熊本: Kumamoto (Kumamoto) (ruby: (くま), (もと))

Noun

IPA: [kɯ̟ᵝma̠] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (くま)), [canonical] (ruby: (クマ)), kuma [romanization]
Etymology: From Old Japanese. First cited in the Kojiki of 712. Further derivation is uncertain. Possibilities include: * Might be cognate with Japanese 隈 (kuma, “inside corner; inner bend; hollow or hole in something”), perhaps from the way that bears often live in dens. * Might also or separately be cognate with Middle Korean 곰〯 (kwǒm, “bear”), whose archaic form */koma/ is preserved as the first element of the toponym 고마〮ᄂᆞᄅᆞ (Kwòmánòlò, literally “Bear-ford”). Thus, a cognate of Korean 곰 (gom, “bear”) and Baekje 金馬 (*kəma/*kuma, “bear”). * Might be an areal Wanderwort, borrowed from Old Chinese 熊 (OC *ɢʷlɯm) and ultimately deriving from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-wam. See also the etymology notes in the *d-wam entry. Etymology templates: {{lang|ja|熊}} 熊, {{inh|ja|ojp|-|sort=くま}} Old Japanese, {{cog|ja|隈||inside corner; inner bend; hollow or hole in something|tr=kuma}} Japanese 隈 (kuma, “inside corner; inner bend; hollow or hole in something”), {{cog|okm|곰〯|t=bear|tr=kwǒm}} Middle Korean 곰〯 (kwǒm, “bear”), {{IPAfont|*/koma/}} */koma/, {{m|okm|고마〮ᄂᆞᄅᆞ|lit=Bear-ford|tr=Kwòmánòlò}} 고마〮ᄂᆞᄅᆞ (Kwòmánòlò, literally “Bear-ford”), {{cog|ko|곰|t=bear}} Korean 곰 (gom, “bear”), {{cog|pkc|金馬|t=bear|tr=*kəma/*kuma}} Baekje 金馬 (*kəma/*kuma, “bear”), {{cog|och|-}} Old Chinese, {{och-l|熊}} 熊 (OC *ɢʷlɯm), {{cog|sit-pro|*d-wam}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-wam, {{m|sit-pro|*d-wam}} *d-wam Head templates: {{ja-noun|くま|クマ}} 熊(くま) or 熊(クマ) • (kuma)
  1. a bear (large mammal of family Ursidae) Categories (lifeform): Ursids
    Sense id: en-熊-ja-noun-Zzo-V23Z Disambiguation of Ursids: 20 26 19 20 16
  2. (slang) hairiness in general; (more specifically) a bear, an otter (a hairy man, especially one who is gay) Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-熊-ja-noun-gJSLtDL8 Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys
  3. (theater) standing room only audience members in the pit (from the way the standing section would often have a metal railing or fence separating it, resembling a bear cage) Categories (topical): Theater
    Sense id: en-熊-ja-noun-917KBJes Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese entries with topic categories using raw markup, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 0 23 13 48 16 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with topic categories using raw markup: 0 29 22 37 12 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 0 19 20 45 16 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 0 19 9 52 20 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 0 20 24 42 15 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 0 19 25 42 15 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 0 20 19 45 16 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 穴熊: Meles meles (anaguma), the Eurasian badger, 洗熊: a raccoon (araiguma) (ruby: (あらい), (ぐま))

Prefix

IPA: [kɯ̟ᵝma̠] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (くま)), [canonical] (ruby: (クマ)), kuma [romanization]
Etymology: From Old Japanese. First cited in the Kojiki of 712. Further derivation is uncertain. Possibilities include: * Might be cognate with Japanese 隈 (kuma, “inside corner; inner bend; hollow or hole in something”), perhaps from the way that bears often live in dens. * Might also or separately be cognate with Middle Korean 곰〯 (kwǒm, “bear”), whose archaic form */koma/ is preserved as the first element of the toponym 고마〮ᄂᆞᄅᆞ (Kwòmánòlò, literally “Bear-ford”). Thus, a cognate of Korean 곰 (gom, “bear”) and Baekje 金馬 (*kəma/*kuma, “bear”). * Might be an areal Wanderwort, borrowed from Old Chinese 熊 (OC *ɢʷlɯm) and ultimately deriving from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-wam. See also the etymology notes in the *d-wam entry. Etymology templates: {{lang|ja|熊}} 熊, {{inh|ja|ojp|-|sort=くま}} Old Japanese, {{cog|ja|隈||inside corner; inner bend; hollow or hole in something|tr=kuma}} Japanese 隈 (kuma, “inside corner; inner bend; hollow or hole in something”), {{cog|okm|곰〯|t=bear|tr=kwǒm}} Middle Korean 곰〯 (kwǒm, “bear”), {{IPAfont|*/koma/}} */koma/, {{m|okm|고마〮ᄂᆞᄅᆞ|lit=Bear-ford|tr=Kwòmánòlò}} 고마〮ᄂᆞᄅᆞ (Kwòmánòlò, literally “Bear-ford”), {{cog|ko|곰|t=bear}} Korean 곰 (gom, “bear”), {{cog|pkc|金馬|t=bear|tr=*kəma/*kuma}} Baekje 金馬 (*kəma/*kuma, “bear”), {{cog|och|-}} Old Chinese, {{och-l|熊}} 熊 (OC *ɢʷlɯm), {{cog|sit-pro|*d-wam}} Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-wam, {{m|sit-pro|*d-wam}} *d-wam Head templates: {{ja-noun|くま|クマ}} 熊(くま) or 熊(クマ) • (kuma)
  1. prefixed to other nouns for animals or plants to indicate large size or great strength, relative to other varieties Tags: morpheme Derived forms: 熊鼠 (kumanezumi) (ruby: (くま), (ねずみ)) (english: Rattus rattus, the black rat)
    Sense id: en-熊-ja-prefix-8gRst0tz

Download JSON data for 熊 meaning in Japanese (11.4kB)

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "くま",
        "2": "クマ"
      },
      "expansion": "熊(くま) or 熊(クマ) • (kuma)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "prefix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "prefixed to other nouns for animals or plants to indicate large size or great strength, relative to other varieties"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "くま"
    },
    {
      "other": "くま"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kɯ̟ᵝma̠]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Bear",
    "Kojiki",
    "ja:熊"
  ],
  "word": "熊"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "熊"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "熊",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "熊"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "prefix",
  "title": "熊",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.