うけ

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
受け
請け

Pronunciation

Noun

うけ • (uke) 

  1. 受け, 請け: approximately: reception, reaction, appreciation
  2. 受け: (fandom slang) bottom (originally referring to male gay ships); uke
    Coordinate term: 攻め
  3. 受け: (typography, of a punctuation mark) the state of being a mark with an 空き (aki) after it, such as the closing parenthesis ）, the closing quotation mark 」, the ideographic comma 、 or the ideographic full stop 。
Descendants
  • → English: uke
  • → Chinese: 受 (semantic loan)
See also

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of うけ – see the following entry.
【食】2
food
(This term, うけ (uke), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as うけ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as うけ.)

Etymology 3

Alternative spellings
浮け
浮子
泛子

Pronunciation

Noun

うけ • (uke) 

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Etymology 4

Alternative spelling
筌

Pronunciation

Noun

うけ • (uke) 

  1. a device placed in a river used to capture fish

Etymology 5

Alternative spelling
槽

Pronunciation

Noun

うけ • (uke) 

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Etymology 6

For pronunciation and definitions of うけ – see the following entry.
【有卦】
streak of luck
(This term, うけ (uke), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as うけ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as うけ.)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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