Entry
  1. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Transitive verb

    to slaughter; to massacre; to butcher

    Formal or literary term

  2. to defeat soundly; to overpower; to vanquish

    Formal or literary term

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

slaughter, butcher, slay

Kun
ほふ.る
On
チョ
Strokes
11
Radical
corpse

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Dictionary and index codes (12)
CodeReference
3-3-8SKIP code
3r9.2The Kanji Dictionary
7726.4Four corner code
5c60Unicode hex code
1-37-43JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1399Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1426New Nelson (John Haig)
2217Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2328Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
7761XMorohashi
tu2Pinyin reading
do, jeoKorean reading