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I don't think people will mind you asking about kanji readings.

跪く＝ひざまずく

This one IS on the denshi jisho site (though I just looked it up on my personal 電子辞書 because it's faster). One option which might be helpful with Windows 7 or Max OS X.?? is to look up kanji by drawing them out on your mouse/pad. At least I think you can do these things but I never looked into it myself. I guess you can do this on an iPhone, DS, etc also. Perhaps if you tell us what technology you have to work with, somebody other than me who knows about this stuff can help you out.

Thank You for Your answer. That's surely kanji I've been looking for (and I really can't find it in site, I've been used "kanji by radicals" option with 止, 口 and 已 option (I can see now that my dired kanji can be found looking at 口, but there's 1323 kanji using this radical, so that's difficult to find this one)... I don't know, there's any possibility to look kanji drawing it by mouse. I don't have iPhone, DS and other stuff like this, my OS is Windows 7 Ultimate. I checked out that some websites give possibility to search kanji this way using some java application, but I never couldn't find any kanji this way... But, if somebody can suggest me something, I'll be very glad.

Ah, so the radical is 足偏, and you can find it by radical on this site (13 strokes). (By the way, can someone tell me how to convert あしへん to actually give the あしへん?) If you end up looking up a lot of kanji by radical, it might be a good idea to learn all (or almost all) the radicals, so you can easily identify them (at least usually, and sometimes the radical depends on the dictionary, but they're for the most part standard). Usually, if the kanji looks like two characters side by side, one of them is the radical (more often the left one, as in this case).

Alternatively, Kodansha's Kanji Learner's Dictionary has a "SKIP" lookup method which allows you to look up kanji without knowing reading or radical (but you do need to know the stroke count). Unfortunately, that doesn't have much more than the 常用漢字, and 跪 is not in there. Perhaps there's a more complete kanji dictionary with a similar lookup method, but I think once you get familiar with looking up word by radicals, it's not that hard (usually).

As for looking up kanji by drawing them on your computer, I think Windows IME Pad allows you to do this. See for example

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/resources/findingkanji
http://japangaku.com/figuring-out-those-unknown-kanji-in-your-non-digital-book

Though I've never done this, so perhaps someone else on this site can tell you more about this.

I just tried it on the IME pad, and even though I drew it pretty badly it still came up as the first option. The IME pad should be accessible from the language bar all the time I believe (though it might depend on your setup). The only thing you have to remember is that you have to have the flashing input cursor on the screen to start writing.

I did think of an alternative method if your sentence is not too obscure which is to write the rest and enclose it in quotes and search on Google. "汝の亡骸の前に"
Didn't work this time though. Too obscure.

Always look for bigger radicals before you go for the smaller ones. It's hard if you're not well-versed in the available radicals, but it's a good thing to keep in mind.