Keyword
bear
Info
FrequencyTop 1600-1700
Type
Kyōiku (4th grade) 
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KankenLevel 7
Heisig2159
Readings
くま
(89%)
ぐま
(10%)
Composed of
ability
fire sparks
Mnemonic

Do bears have the ability to spew fire sparks from their mouths and set the ground on fire? Of course not. But if they did... that would indeed be scary.

Used in kanji (1 in total)
brown bear
Used in vocabulary (94 in total)
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
Kumamoto (city, prefecture)
Kumamoto prefecture (Kyushu)
Examples (29 in total)
No one noticed the bear's appearance.
The bear ran after me.
Did you see the bear?