First opened Wednesday, October 10, 2007
腰掛ける
こしかける
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 4
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to sit (down)
Koshikakeru is 腰 (koshi, “hips, lower back”) plus 掛ける (kakeru, “to rest on”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼はベッドに腰掛けた。
He sat on the bed.
彼は彼女の横に腰かけた。
He seated himself beside her.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “腰(こし) (koshi, “hips, lower back”) + 掛(か)ける (kakeru, “to rest on”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 腰掛ける (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.