The term for "crossing [one's] legs" in Japanese is ashi-kumi 足組み. It's a noun formed from the phrase ashi wo kumu 足を組む, "to cross [one's] legs."
- isu ni suwatte ashi wo kumu
椅子に座って足を組む
To sit on a chair and cross [one's] legs. - {kunda} ashi
組んだ足
Legs [that] {crossed}.
Crossed legs.
Character: Nishikino Maki 西木野真姫
Anime: Love Live! School Idol Project (Episode 2, Stitch)
Anime: Love Live! School Idol Project (Episode 2, Stitch)
On Floor
When crossing one's legs sitting on the floor, that is, to say "sitting Indian style" or "criss-cross applesauce" in Japanese, the term would be agura あぐら.
Character: Excel エクセル
Anime: Excel♥Saga, エクセル♥サーガ (Episode 4)
Anime: Excel♥Saga, エクセル♥サーガ (Episode 4)
- Context: Excel pouts angrily.
- ude-gumi
腕組み
Arms crossed.- ~gumi is rendaku 連濁.
The lotus position in yoga, used as meditation pose in Buddhism, with feet soles facing up, also has its own term:
Character: Senjougahara Hitagi 戦場ヶ原ひたぎ
Anime: Koyomimonogatari 暦物語 (Episode 4, Stitch)
Anime: Koyomimonogatari 暦物語 (Episode 4, Stitch)
- kekkafuza
結跏趺坐, or 結加趺坐
Lotus position. (in yoga)
Sitting with legs crosses, both soles facing up. - hankafuza
半跏趺坐
A variant of the lotus position in which one doesn't cross their legs, just places one leg over the other.
Examples
For reference, some examples:
Character: Futaba Tae 双葉妙
Anime: Masamune-kun no Revenge, 政宗くんのリベンジ (Episode 11, Stitch)
Anime: Masamune-kun no Revenge, 政宗くんのリベンジ (Episode 11, Stitch)
- Context: a fujoshi 腐女子 sits on a chair with legs crossed.
Character: Sakurajima Mai 桜島麻衣
Anime: Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai, 青春ブタ野郎はバニーガール先輩の夢を見ない (Episode 1)
Anime: Seishun Buta Yarou wa Bunny Girl Senpai no Yume wo Minai, 青春ブタ野郎はバニーガール先輩の夢を見ない (Episode 1)
- Context: a bunny girl バニーガール sits with on a desk legs crossed
Character: Mizuchi Ayumi 海槌亜悠巳
Anime: Sukeban Deka スケバン刑事 (Episode 2, OVA)
Anime: Sukeban Deka スケバン刑事 (Episode 2, OVA)
- Context: a sukeban スケバン sits on a sofa with legs crossed.
Character: Sakamoto 坂本
Anime: Sakamoto Desu ga? 坂本ですが? (Episode 1)
Anime: Sakamoto Desu ga? 坂本ですが? (Episode 1)
- Context: one cool dude sits on air with legs crossed.
- kuuki-isu
空気椅子
"Air chair." Keeping a pose as if you were sitting on a chair, without actually sitting on a chair, by just squatting very high.
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