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Yoko ukemi

Sideways breakfall (accompanied by hard slap of tatami mat) – a Judo breakfall

Type
Breakfalls and rolls
Martial arts
Judo
Japanese
横受け身
Meaning
Sideways breakfall (accompanied by hard slap of tatami mat)
Listed in
Ukemi (Kodokan judo), Ukemi (judo techniques)

Kanji in 横受け身

sideways, side, horizontal
on: オウ
kun: よこ
15 strokes · JLPT 2
accept, undergo, answer (phone)
on: ジュ
kun: う.ける、-う.け、う.かる
8 strokes · JLPT 2
somebody, person, one's station in life
on: シン
kun: み
7 strokes · JLPT 2

The name word by word

Each part of the romanized name looked up in the JMdict Japanese dictionary.

WordJapaneseReadingMeaning
Yoko横よこside-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width
ukemi受身うけみthe defensive

Other Judo breakfalls and rolls

; kanji data KANJIDIC2 and KanjiVG. Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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