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  1. Noun

    pot

    Polite (teineigo) languagesee 釜

  2. (volcanic) crater

  3. buttocks

  4. effeminate gay man; male transvestite; (preoperative) transgender woman; (gay) male prostitute

    Usually written using kana aloneSensitiveColloquialusu. オカマ; oft. derog.

Also written 御釜【おかま】、御竈【おかま】

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Characters in this word

1
釜
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

kettle, cauldron, iron pot

Kun
かま
On
フ
Strokes
10
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
1761 of 2500
Radical
金 gold

Built from

一干并父王丶ノ金
Words starting with 釜Words ending in 釜Anywhere in a word
Dictionary and index codes (18)
CodeReference
2-2-8, 2-4-6SKIP code
2o8.7The Kanji Dictionary
8010.9Four corner code
91dcUnicode hex code
1-19-88JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2834Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6215New Nelson (John Haig)
2107New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2610Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1808Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2332Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1367Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1621A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1160Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
40164Morohashi
1131Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
fu3Pinyin reading
buKorean reading