Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1434 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: yield, bend, flinch, submit

Kunyomi: かが.む かが.める

Onyomi: クツ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: corpse

Examples

Onyomi Examples

クツジョク disgrace, humiliation

クツジュウ servile submission, subservience

ハイクツ dorsiflexion, dorsal flexion

コウクツ retroflexion

Kunyomi Examples

かがむ to stoop, to lean over, to bend forward, to bend down, to crouch, to squat

める かがめる to stoop, to bend (e.g. one's knees)