Memory phrase for the Kanji: 屈


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Meaning stoop, bending, to bow, crouch, yield

Pronunciation

KUTSU

Explanation

Top: buttock from the side 尸, rest: come, go out 出 (Two mountains 山 coming out one after the other)

Mnemonic


 
("plumber's crack or smile", refers to the visible butt-crack if sb. with a too short shirt crouches) The buttock (=the crack) comes out when stooping (=bowing).

Radicals

crouch, stoop, bendingThink to the "carpenter crack", which refers to the visible butt-crack if a guy with a too short shirt crouches. The mnemonic: "The butt comes out, when crouching.
buttocks (in a side view)The radical shikabane has the meaning: corpse 尸. But because of its use in tail 尾, buttocks 尻 or urine 尿, it is generally considered to mean "buttocks".
come out
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 Vocabulary

屈む かがむ  bend forward
屈折 くっせつ  bending, indentation, refraction
理屈 りくつ  theory, reason
窮屈 きゅうくつ  narrow, tight, stiff, uneasy, constrained
退屈 たいくつ  tedium, boredom

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