片膝を突く
かたひざをつく
- to kneel down on one knee; to genuflect exp v5k
Kanji
片
ヘン
かた- • かた
one-sided; leaf; sheet; right-side kata radical (no. 91)
膝
シツ
ひざ
knee; lap
突
トツ • カ
つ.く
stab; protruding; thrust; pierce; prick; collision; sudden
Synonyms
突く
つく つつく
- to prick; to stab v5k vt
- to poke; to prod; to push; to thrust; to nudge; to hit; to strike v5k vt
- to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with; to press against (the floor, etc.) v5k vt
- to attack v5k vt
- to brave (the rain, etc.) v5k vt
- to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge v5k vt uk
- to peck at (one's food); to pick at v5k vt
- to peck at (someone's faults, etc.) v5k vt
- to egg on; to put up to v5k vt