Entry
  1. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to be disheartened; to lose heart; to be dispirited; to be crushed (emotionally)

    Usually written using kana alone

    いざというとき決意がくじけた。
    My resolution dissolved at the last moment.
  2. to be sprained

    Usually written using kana alone

  3. to be snapped; to be broken

    Usually written using kana alone

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

crush, break, sprain, discourage

Kun
くじ.くくじ.ける
On
Strokes
10
Taught
Junior high
Frequency
1869 of 2500
Radical
hand

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Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
1-3-7, 1-3-8SKIP code
3c7.15The Kanji Dictionary
5801.4Four corner code
632bUnicode hex code
1-26-35JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1913Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2163New Nelson (John Haig)
519Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
392Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2845Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1101Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
12087Morohashi
2091Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
cuo4Pinyin reading
jwaKorean reading