Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 屈
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屈 |
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Kanji-Trainer
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Meaning |
stoop, bending, to bow, crouch, yield |
Pronunciation |
KUTSU
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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
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屈
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crouch, stoop, bending | (Think 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.) |
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尸
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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".) |
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出
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come out | |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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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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