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There are 6 total results for your 拱く search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

拱く

see styles
 komaneku
    こまねく
    komanuku
    こまぬく
(transitive verb) (1) (kana only) to fold (one's) arms; (2) to stand by and do nothing; to look on passively

手を拱く

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 teokomaneku
    てをこまねく
    teokomanuku
    てをこまぬく
(exp,v5k) to fold one's arms; to stand and watch (without interfering)

腕を拱く

see styles
 udeokomaneku
    うでをこまねく
    udeokomanuku
    うでをこまぬく
(exp,v5k) to look on with arms folded

Variations:
拱く
拱ねく(io)

see styles
 komanuku(拱ku); komaneku
    こまぬく(拱く); こまねく
(transitive verb) (1) (kana only) to fold (one's) arms; (transitive verb) (2) to stand by and do nothing; to look on passively

Variations:
手をこまねく
手を拱く

see styles
 teokomaneku; teokomanuku(手o拱ku)
    てをこまねく; てをこまぬく(手を拱く)
(exp,v5k) (1) to fold one's arms; (exp,v5k) (2) to stand and watch (without interfering); to stand idly by; to look on with folded arms; (exp,v5k) (3) (colloquialism) to lie in wait; to be ready and waiting

Variations:
腕をこまねく
腕をこまぬく
腕を拱く

see styles
 udeokomaneku(腕okomaneku, 腕o拱ku); udeokomanuku(腕okomanuku, 腕o拱ku)
    うでをこまねく(腕をこまねく, 腕を拱く); うでをこまぬく(腕をこまぬく, 腕を拱く)
(exp,v5k) to look on with arms folded
This page contains 6 results for "拱く" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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