うけ

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
受け 請け

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) うけ​ [ùkéꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝke̞]

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

• 総(そう)受(う)け (sōuke)
• 起(お)こし (okoshi)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of うけ – see the following entry.

【食】2 [noun] food

(This term, うけ, 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

• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝke̞]

Noun

うけ • (uke) 

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Etymology 4

Alternative spelling
筌

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) うけ​ [ùkéꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝke̞]

Noun

うけ • (uke) 

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

Etymology 5

Alternative spelling
槽

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝke̞]

Noun

うけ • (uke) 

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Etymology 6

For pronunciation and definitions of うけ – see the following entry.

【有卦】 [noun] streak of luck

(This term, うけ, 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.)