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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: 尸 出

屈

Radical

Radical: 尸

Meaning: corpse

Reading: しかばね

Frequency: 148

尸

Examples

Onyomi Examples

屈辱 (クツジョク) disgrace, humiliation

屈従 (クツジュウ) servile submission, subservience

背屈 (ハイクツ) dorsiflexion, dorsal flexion

後屈 (コウクツ) retroflexion

Kunyomi Examples

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

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

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