Entry
  1. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to be mentally slow; to be befuddled

  2. Auxiliary verb, Ichidan verb

    to become engrossed in; to become absorbed in

    Usually written using kana alone

  3. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to become frayed and dishevelled (of hair, grass, etc.); to be fluffy

    occ. written as 蓬ける

Also written 呆ける【ほうける】耄ける【ほうける】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

fall in love with, admire, grow senile

Kun
ほけ.るぼ.けるほ.れる
On
コツ
Strokes
11
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Frequency
2486 of 2500
Radical
heart

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
1-3-8SKIP code
4k8.10The Kanji Dictionary
9703.2Four corner code
60daUnicode hex code
1-25-91JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1711Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1893New Nelson (John Haig)
584Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
440Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2277Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2376Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
10811Morohashi
hu1Pinyin reading
holKorean reading