EntryCommonJLPT N3
  1. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to bark; to howl; to bay; to roar; to yelp; to yap

    犬が郵便屋さんに吠えた。
    The dog barked at the mailman.
  2. to howl (of the wind); to roar (of the sea)

  3. to yell; to shout; to cry; to moan

Also written 吼える【ほえる】咆える【ほえる】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

bark, howl, cry

Kun
ほえ.るほ.える
On
ハイベイ
Strokes
7
Radical
mouth

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Dictionary and index codes (13)
CodeReference
1-3-4SKIP code
3d4.1The Kanji Dictionary
6303.4Four corner code
5420Unicode hex code
1-43-42JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
897Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
739New Nelson (John Haig)
269Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2170Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2288Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3331Morohashi
fei4Pinyin reading
pyeKorean reading