EntryCommonJLPT N1
  1. Godan verb with 'gu' ending, Transitive verb

    to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay; to bark

    少年は木の皮を剥いだ。
    The boy stripped a tree of the bark.
  2. to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of

Also written 剝ぐ【はぐ】折ぐ【へぐ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

come off, peel, fade, discolor

Kun
へ.ぐへず.るむ.くむ.けるは.がれるは.ぐは.げるは.がす
On
ハクホク
Strokes
10
Frequency
2383 of 2500
Radical
knife

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
1-8-2SKIP code
2f8.4The Kanji Dictionary
2210.0Four corner code
5265Unicode hex code
1-39-77JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
695Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
496New Nelson (John Haig)
2106Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2145Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1227Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1427Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1719Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
bo1, bao1Pinyin reading
bagKorean reading