EntryCommon
  1. Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verb

    to blur; to shade off; to gradate

    Usually written using kana alone

    海綿は水を吸収しますので水彩絵具をぼかしたりする時に便利です。
    Sponge absorbs water so it is convenient for shading water-colours and such.
  2. to obscure; to make ambiguous

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 暈かす【ぼかす】

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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

halo, corona, fade

Kun
ぼか.すぼけ.るかさくまぼかしめまい
On
ウン
Strokes
13
Radical
sun

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Dictionary and index codes (13)
CodeReference
2-4-9SKIP code
4c9.7The Kanji Dictionary
6050.6Four corner code
6688Unicode hex code
1-58-84JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2151Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2500New Nelson (John Haig)
2439Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2516Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1997Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
14037Morohashi
yun1, yun4Pinyin reading
hun, unKorean reading