うけ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
受け請けウケ

連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 受(う)ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

うけ or ウケ • (uke)

受け, 請け, ウケ: reception, reaction, appreciation
ウケを狙(ねら)う
uke o nerau
to aim for laughs
受け: (fandom slang) bottom (originally referring to male gay ships); uke
Coordinate term: 攻め
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 。

うけ • (uke)

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

【食】2	[noun] food

【浮け】	[noun] a float used in fishing [noun] a fishnet float [noun] a float used for safety or rescue, to keep a person from drowning Alternative spellings 浮子, 泛子

【筌】H	[noun] a device placed in a river used to capture fish

【槽】S	[noun] (obsolete) tub-shaped container

【有卦】	[noun] streak of luck

(This term, うけ (uke), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as うけ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as うけ.)

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN