• 子熊こぐま — bear cub
• 白熊しろくま — polar bear
• 熊手くまで — rake (good-luck rake)
• 熊本県くまもとけん — Kumamoto Prefecture
• 熊野くまの — Kumano (place name)
• 熊笹くまざさ — dwarf bamboo (kumazasa)
• 熊穴くまあな — bear den

Phono-semantic character: the bottom 灬れっか hints at “fire/heat,” while the top part with 能のう serves as the phonetic. In modern Japanese, the common reading is the kun-yomi くま; the on-yomi ユウ appears mainly in compounds and names.