"ひれ伏す" meaning in Japanese

See ひれ伏す in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: [çiɾe̞ɸɯ̟̊sɨ]
Head templates: {{ja-verb|ひれふす|tr=intrans|type=1}} ひれ伏(ふ)す • (hirefusu) intransitive godan (stem ひれ伏(ふ)し (hirefushi), past ひれ伏(ふ)した (hirefushita)) Forms: ひれ伏す intransitive godan [canonical] (ruby: ()), hirefusu [romanization], ひれ伏し [stem] (ruby: ()), ひれ伏した [past] (ruby: ()), no-table-tags [table-tags], ひれ伏さ [error-unrecognized-form], ひれふさ [error-unrecognized-form], hirefusa [error-unrecognized-form], ひれ伏し [error-unrecognized-form], ひれふし [error-unrecognized-form], hirefushi [error-unrecognized-form], ひれ伏す [error-unrecognized-form], ひれふす [error-unrecognized-form], hirefusu [error-unrecognized-form], ひれ伏せ [error-unrecognized-form], ひれふせ [error-unrecognized-form], hirefuse [error-unrecognized-form], ひれ伏される [passive], ひれふされる [passive], hirefusareru [passive], ひれ伏させる [causative], ひれ伏さす [causative], ひれふさせる [causative], ひれふさす [causative], hirefusaseru [causative], hirefusasu [causative], ひれ伏せる [potential], ひれふせる [potential], hirefuseru [potential], ひれ伏そう [volitional], ひれふそう [volitional], hirefusō [volitional], ひれ伏さない [negative], ひれふさない [negative], hirefusanai [negative], ひれ伏さず [continuative, negative], ひれふさず [continuative, negative], hirefusazu [continuative, negative], ひれ伏します [formal], ひれふします [formal], hirefushimasu [formal], ひれ伏した [perfective], ひれふした [perfective], hirefushita [perfective], ひれ伏して [conjunctive], ひれふして [conjunctive], hirefushite [conjunctive], ひれ伏せば [conditional, hypothetical], ひれふせば [conditional, hypothetical], hirefuseba [conditional, hypothetical], 平伏す [alternative, kanji]
  1. to prostrate oneself Synonyms: 平伏 (heifuku) (ruby: 平伏(へいふく))
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏す intransitive godan",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "伏",
          "ふ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏し",
      "roman": "hirefushi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "伏",
          "ふ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏した",
      "roman": "hirefushita",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "伏",
          "ふ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-go-su",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏さ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusa",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏し",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふし",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefushi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏す",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏せ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふせ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefuse",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏される",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふされる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏させる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏さす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏せる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefuseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏そう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふそう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏さない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏さず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏します",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふします",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefushimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏した",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふした",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefushita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏して",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふして",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefushite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏せば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふせば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefuseba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "平伏す",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ひれふす",
        "tr": "intrans",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "ひれ伏(ふ)す • (hirefusu) intransitive godan (stem ひれ伏(ふ)し (hirefushi), past ひれ伏(ふ)した (hirefushita))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese godan verbs ending with -su",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms read with kun'yomi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 1 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to prostrate oneself"
      ],
      "id": "en-ひれ伏す-ja-verb-8qJJI7AM",
      "links": [
        [
          "prostrate",
          "prostrate"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "heifuku",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "平伏",
              "へいふく"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "平伏"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ひれふす"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[çiɾe̞ɸɯ̟̊sɨ]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ひれ伏す"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏す intransitive godan",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "伏",
          "ふ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusu",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏し",
      "roman": "hirefushi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "伏",
          "ふ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏した",
      "roman": "hirefushita",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "伏",
          "ふ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-go-su",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏さ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusa",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏し",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふし",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefushi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏す",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏せ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふせ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefuse",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏される",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふされる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏させる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏さす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusaseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏せる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefuseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏そう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふそう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏さない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusanai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏さず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふさず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefusazu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏します",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふします",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefushimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏した",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふした",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefushita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏して",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふして",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefushite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれ伏せば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ひれふせば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hirefuseba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "平伏す",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "kanji"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ひれふす",
        "tr": "intrans",
        "type": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "ひれ伏(ふ)す • (hirefusu) intransitive godan (stem ひれ伏(ふ)し (hirefushi), past ひれ伏(ふ)した (hirefushita))",
      "name": "ja-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese godan verbs",
        "Japanese godan verbs ending with -su",
        "Japanese intransitive verbs",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with manual fragments",
        "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese terms read with kun'yomi",
        "Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with 伏 read as ふ",
        "Japanese terms with 1 kanji",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
        "Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to prostrate oneself"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prostrate",
          "prostrate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ひれふす"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[çiɾe̞ɸɯ̟̊sɨ]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "heifuku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "平伏",
          "へいふく"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "平伏"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ひれ伏す"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ひれ伏す meaning in Japanese (5.5kB)

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  "path": [
    "ひれ伏す"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "ひれ伏す",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Ren’yōkei (\"continuative\")'",
  "path": [
    "ひれ伏す"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "ひれ伏す",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Shūshikei (\"terminal\")'",
  "path": [
    "ひれ伏す"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "ひれ伏す",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Rentaikei (\"attributive\")'",
  "path": [
    "ひれ伏す"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "ひれ伏す",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Kateikei (\"hypothetical\")'",
  "path": [
    "ひれ伏す"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "ひれ伏す",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/735",
  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'Meireikei (\"imperative\")'",
  "path": [
    "ひれ伏す"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "ひれ伏す",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-11-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-11-20 using wiktextract (5887622 and c6a903f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.