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腰掛ける (こしかける) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

腰こし掛かける

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Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

1

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

sit down; seat oneself

Standard intransitive verb for sitting down on a chair, bench, or similar surface.

彼かれはベンチに腰こし掛かけて新しん聞ぶんを読よんだ。
He sat down on the bench and read the newspaper.
どうぞ、そちらの椅い子すに腰こし掛かけて

ください

。

Please sit down on that chair.

Written forms

腰こし掛かけるUsage35%
Standard kanji spelling; high priority.
腰こしかけるUsage60%
Common variant with kana for 掛.
こしかけるUsage5%
腰こし掛かける
irregular okurigana
Irregular okurigana usage; rarely seen.

Kanji

腰loins, hips, waist
掛hang, suspend, depend

Similar words

座すわる
座る is the general word for sitting, including on the floor or in a seat. 腰掛ける specifically means sitting on something like a chair or bench, with the hips resting on a surface.

Etymology

Compound of 腰 (koshi, 'hips, lower back') + 掛ける (kakeru, 'to hang, suspend'). The image is of resting one's hips on a support.