Meaning
bend · flinch · submit · yield
On'yomi
クツ
Kun'yomi
かが.む · かが.める
Common compounds (13)
- 理屈 りくつtheory; reason; logic
- 屈托 くったくennui; boredom
- 屈伏 くっぷくyielding; submission; surrender; giving way; succumbing
- 屈辱 くつじょくdisgrace; humiliation
- 屈指 くっしleading; foremost; preeminent; outstanding; one of the best
- 窮屈 きゅうくつtight (e.g. finances)
- 不屈 ふくつpersistence; fortitude; indomitability
- 屈折 くっせつinflection
- 倔強 くっきょうrobust; brawny; muscular; strong; sturdy
- 屈する くっするto bend (knee, etc.)
- 退屈 たいくつto feel bored; to get bored (with); to get tired (of)
- 卑屈 ひくつservile; subservient; obsequious; slavish; self-abasing; grovelling; spineless