屈
bend, flinch, submit, yield
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Nanori (名乗り)
Stroke Order
8 / 8
Information
Grade:8
Strokes:8
JLPT:1
Frequency:1434
Vocabulary
クツ
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 窮屈 | キュウクツ | narrow; tight; cramped; formal; stiff; strict; ceremonious; rigid; constrained; uncomfortable; tight (e.g. finances) |
| 屈辱 | クツジョク | disgrace; humiliation |
| 退屈 | タイクツ | tedious; boring; dull; uninteresting; tiresome; monotonous; to feel bored; to get bored (with); to get tired (of) |
| 理屈 | リクツ | theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse; pretext |
| 卑屈 | ヒクツ | servile; subservient; obsequious; slavish; self-abasing; grovelling; spineless |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 屈指 | くっし | leading; foremost; preeminent; outstanding; one of the best |
| 屈折 | くっせつ | bending; curving; twisting; turning; winding; warping (of feelings, logic, etc.); distortion; twisting; refraction; inflection |
| 屈託 | くったく | worry; care; concern; ennui; boredom |
| 屈する | くっする | to yield; to give in; to be daunted; to shrink; to bend (knee, etc.); to subdue; to overpower; to feel down |
| 屈伸 | くっしん | bending and stretching; flexing and extending |
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