The karambit or kerambit is a small hand-held, curved blade from Indonesia.

A karambit is used by the antagonist Alphard in Canaan.

Daggers like the claw-shaped karambit are often preferred.

The Karambit is shown in the crest of the Royal Malaysian Police.

Called karambit in the Philippines, it is known as a kerambit in both Indonesia and Malaysia.

A folding Emerson Karambit is used by Roan in TV series Nikita.

A folding Emerson Karambit is briefly seen in the Thomas Jane film, The Punisher.

In the movie Taken, Liam Neeson fights Sheik Raman's guard who uses a karambit.

Frank Castle used an Emerson Karambit to kill an opponent in one of the final scenes in The Punisher.

A folding Emerson Karambit is used by Michael Westen in the Television Series Burn Notice.

A karambit is used by Lazlo Mourne in the Mushashi Flex novel by Steve Perry.

A Cold Steel Steel Tiger Karambit is used by a gang Thai member in The Man from Nowhere.

A karambit is used by Alex Mason and Frank Woods in the level Executive Order in the 2010 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops.

A karambit is used by Katya (Sam Phillips) a mute female terrorist working with Simon Gruber in Die Hard with a Vengeance.

A karambit seems to make an appearance in the new instalment of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series, Splinter Cell Blacklist.

Features returning include a moving "Mark and Execute", Sam's signature goggles and a new knife, the Karambit, and the ability to perform "abduction" stealth melee takedowns.

Through Indonesia's trade network and close contact with neighbouring countries, the karambit was eventually dispersed through what are now Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand.

The most common models are the CQC-7, Commander, SARK, Karambit, Raven, and the SPECWAR.

Culturally the karambit was a subject of condescension in Java because of its history as a weapon of the agrarian peasantry, as opposed to the kesatria (warrior class) who were trained in the keraton or palace.

A karambit also resurfaces in the mission "Old Wounds" from the video game Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2, it is used by Sgt Frank Woods in order to interrogate Lev Kravchenko.

These pistol shaped STI knives also have many characteristics of other weapons such as the Tonfa, Tomahawk, Boomerang, Brass Knuckles, Yawara Stick, Straight Razor, Karambit, and Pistol Bayonet.

It features capabilities of lethal and non lethal, emergency rescue, and characteristics of martial arts weapons including, Pistol Bayonet, Standard Knife, Tonfa, Straight Razor, Karambit knife, Sai, Kubotan, Brass Knuckles, Tomahawk, Boomerang.

Generally, the short Filipino karambit has found favor in the West with some martial artists because such proponents allege the biomechanics of the weapon allow for more powerful cutting strokes and painful "ripping" wounds, and because its usability is hypothesized as more intuitive, though there continues to be debate about this matter.