Entry
  1. Ichidan verb, Transitive verb

    to strain (one's ears, eyes); to prick up (one's ears)

    Usually written using kana alone

    私の声を聞きつけて、私の犬は耳をそばだてた。
    At the sound of my voice, my dog pricked up his ears.

Also written 攲てる【そばだてる】側てる【そばだてる】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

prick up (one's ears)

Kun
そばだ.てるそばだ.つ
On
Strokes
12
Radical
lack

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Dictionary and index codes (10)
CodeReference
1-8-4SKIP code
4j8.3The Kanji Dictionary
4768.2Four corner code
6b39Unicode hex code
1-61-26JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2417Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2937New Nelson (John Haig)
16093Morohashi
yi1, qi1Pinyin reading
euiKorean reading