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  1. Noun

    corner; nook; recess

    Usually written using kana alone

  2. shade; shadow; dark area

    Usually written using kana alonealso written as 暈

  3. dark circles (under the eyes); dark rings

    Usually written using kana aloneoft. written as クマ

  4. bend (in a road, river, etc.)

    Poetical term

  5. shading; gradation

    Abbreviationsee 隈取り

  6. kumadori; style of kabuki makeup used for violent roles

    Abbreviationsee 隈取り

Also written 曲【くま】、阿【くま】

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Characters in this word

1
隈
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

corner, nook, recess

Kun
くますみ
On
ワイエ
Strokes
12
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2311 of 2500
Radical
阜 mound

Built from

衣田阡
Words starting with 隈Words ending in 隈Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (16)
CodeReference
1-3-9SKIP code
2d9.2The Kanji Dictionary
7623.2Four corner code
3665deroo
9688Unicode hex code
1-23-08JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5008Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6466New Nelson (John Haig)
763Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
571Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2427Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2505Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1841Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
41748Morohashi
wei1Pinyin reading
oeKorean reading