The rice harvesting season has arrived.
close-cropped hair; harvesting
trimming; cutting; haircut; pruning
weed cutter; grass cutter; brush cutter · lawn mower
harvesting; reaping
weeding; brush clearing
string trimmer; weed whacker; brush cutter
hay-meadow commons; common meadow for grass cutting · place or organization from which many hope to benefit; honey pot
grass sickle; scythe for cutting grass
freshly mown; newly cut; newly shorn
harvest; reaping
morote gari; two-hand reap
cut evenly; trim to the same length; crop uniformly
Standard kanji form for the noun meaning 'cutting' or 'harvesting'. Often used in compounds.
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially when the kanji is not essential.
The kanji 刈 is a phono-semantic compound, but the exact derivation of the reading かり is uncertain. It is related to the verb 刈る (to cut).