Entry
  1. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to flatter; to curry favor (with); to fawn (on)

    彼女は先生にこびてばかり。
    She always kisses up to teachers.
  2. to flirt (with; a man); to make eyes (at)

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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

flatter, humor, flirt

Kun
こ.びる
On
Strokes
12
Radical
woman

Built from

Used in names as

こび

Dictionary and index codes (12)
CodeReference
1-3-9SKIP code
3e9.5The Kanji Dictionary
4746.7Four corner code
5a9aUnicode hex code
1-53-27JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1240Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1245New Nelson (John Haig)
565New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
687Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6513Morohashi
mei4Pinyin reading
miKorean reading