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 (114 in total)
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
Kumamoto (city, prefecture)
Kumamoto Prefecture (Kyūshū)
Examples (35 in total)
A bear appeared there.
But bears aren't the only thing I'm worried about.
I managed to climb up the tree before the bear caught up with me.