コシ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of コシ – see the following entry.

【こし】 [noun] the waist, the (lower) back, the small of the back [noun] (anatomy) the lumbar region [noun] the skirting of a shoji [noun] the third line of a waka or tanka poem (from the way that the next two lines are longer, similar to the way the body gets wider at the hips) [noun] (of food) chewiness; springiness Alternative spelling 腰 【こし】 [noun] palanquin, litter [noun] (rare, possibly obsolete, architecture) a storey [adjective] classical terminal form of modern adjective 濃い (koi, “thick in consistency; deep in color; rich in flavor”) Alternative spellings 輿, 層, 濃し

(This term, コシ, is the katakana spelling of the above term.)