Kanji1 / 9
臥 kanji
bend down, bow, lie prostrate
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
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- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Jinmeiyō (names)
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ガ
Kun readings
ふせるふせるふす
Variant forms
卧Words with 臥
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —安臥quiet rest
- —横臥lying on one's side
- —臥床retiring to bed (esp. due to illness); bed
- —起臥daily life; daily living; waking up and going to sleep
- —仰臥lying on one's back; lying face upward; lying supine
- —平臥lying down; being laid up; being ill in bed
- —偃臥lying face down
- —臥龍unrecognized genius; exceptional person hidden among the masses; reclining dragon
- —病臥being ill in bed
- —座臥sitting and lying down; daily life
- —臥すto lie down (in bed); to take to one's bed
- —帰臥quitting one's job as a government official to return to live quietly in one's own native region
- —側臥lying down on one's side; sleeping next to someone
- —臥具bedding; kasaya; monk's stole
- —臥位lying down (of body); reclining position; decubitus
- —伏臥lying face down; lying on one's face; lying prostrate
- —臥褥retiring to bed (esp. due to illness); bed
- —臥するto lie down (in bed); to take to one's bed
- —臥薪嘗胆going through thick and thin to attain one's objective; enduring unspeakable hardships for the sake of vengeance
- —分娩臥床lying-in bed