屈 — yield, bend, flinch

くつ屈 yield

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+5C48 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1434 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1140 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

yield
bend
flinch
submit

word

くつ kutsu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

理(り) 屈(くつ) rikutsu theory 退(たい) 屈(くつ) taikutsu boredom 屈(くつ) 辱(じょく) kutsujoku humiliation 窮(きゅう) 屈(くつ) kyuukutsu narrow

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

尸 corpse

でる出 exit

Used as component in (3)

ほる掘 dig ほり堀 ditch くつ窟 cavern

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#44 尸 corpse