Keyword
lurk
Info
FrequencyTop 900-1000
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 3
Heisig907
Old form
Readings
もぐ
(27%)
せん
(27%)
ひそ
(26%)
むぐ
(14%)
くぐ
(4%)
Composed of
water drops
replace
Used in vocabulary (102 in total)
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
to dive (into or under water); to get under; to get into; to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself
to slip into; to crawl into (under); to conceal oneself (under); to sneak into; to infiltrate
infiltration; sneaking in; going undercover
concealment; hiding; ambush; incubation; latency; dormancy
to hide oneself
to lower one's voice; to speak with a hushed voice
to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
to hide; to conceal; to lower volume (of a sound or one's voice) so as not to be heard; to become quiet and inconspicuous
latent; potential
potential; latent faculties; potential capacities
to slip into; to crawl into (under); to conceal oneself (under); to sneak into; to infiltrate
diving; submerging; going underwater
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
to quieten down; to fall silent; to cease activities; to become inactive; to lie low
potentiality; dormancy; latency
to go under; to pass under; to dive (into or under the water); to evade; to get around; to survive
to go underground; to go into hiding
underwater navigation; going underground; going into hiding; travelling incognito
subconsciousness; subconscious (awareness)
to quieten down; to fall silent; to cease activities; to become inactive; to lie low
hideout (e.g. of fugitive from justice); hiding place
to hide; to lie motionless in hiding
to disappear; to vanish
diving; diver; unlicensed (doctor, driver, etc.); unregistered; outsider; stranger
submarine voyage; underwater navigation
submarine; submersible vessel
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
skin diving; free diving
sinking into deep thought; sinking to the depths; contemplation
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
submarine; midget submarine
antisubmarine
side door; side gate
nuclear submarine
intruder; infiltrator
incubation period
latent energy; potential
(arch.) to be underwater from the neck down; (arch.) to collect shells, seaweed, etc. by diving under the water; to force something under the surface of the water
decompression sickness; caisson disease; the bends
side door; side gate; wicket gate
occult blood
recessiveness
underground Christian; secret Christian (during the Edo period)
special purpose submarine (esp. Japanese midget submarines used in WWII)
latent heat
hydroplane (submarines); diving plane; diving rudder
submarine aircraft carrier
to slip through the dragnet
submarine chaser
anti-submarine net
diving apparatus
going through a cave, grass ring or the interior of a large Buddhistic statue, etc. (symbolizing rebirth); narrow grotto (into which a person can barely fit)
latent image
Japanese forest rat snake (Euprepiophis conspicillatus, Elaphe conspicillata); burrowing rat snake
fecal occult blood; faecal occult blood; FOB
Japanese forest rat snake (Euprepiophis conspicillatus, Elaphe conspicillata); burrowing rat snake
flower chafer (any flower beetle of tribe Cetoniini); Eucetonia pilifera (flower chafer species of tribe Cetoniini)
flower chafer (any flower beetle of tribe Cetoniini); Eucetonia pilifera (flower chafer species of tribe Cetoniini)
circumvention of the law; evasion of the law (by using legal means to obtain a result normally only obtainable by illegal ones)
forestalling; anticipating
caisson disease; the bends
latent variable (e.g. in statistics)
cryptorchidism; undescended testis; retained testis
diving petrel (esp. the common diving petrel, Pelecanoides urinatrix)
Japanese accentor (Prunella rubida)
Japanese accentor (Prunella rubida)
to make something pass through (esp. in cooking); to dip something (into)
Examples (19 in total)
The deeper we dove, the colder the water became.
As we dive deeper, the water becomes colder.
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