Entry
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)

    Usually written using kana alone

    彼はただ肩をすくめただけだった。
    He just shrugged his shoulders.
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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

crouch, cower

Kun
すく.むおそ.れるつつし.む
On
ショウ
Strokes
12
Radical
stand

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Dictionary and index codes (11)
CodeReference
1-5-7SKIP code
5b7.1The Kanji Dictionary
0519.6Four corner code
7ae6Unicode hex code
1-67-80JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
3355Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
4237New Nelson (John Haig)
1632Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
25776Morohashi
song3Pinyin reading
songKorean reading