EntryCommonJLPT N3
  1. Ichidan verb, Intransitive verb

    to struggle in the water; to be drowning; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe

    see 溺れ死ぬ

    あなたが助けてくれなかったら私はおぼれていたことでしょう。
    If it had not been for your help, I should have drowned.
  2. to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted; to wallow in

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

drown, indulge

Kun
いばりおぼ.れる
On
デキジョウニョウ
Strokes
13
Taught
Junior high
Radical
water

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Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
1-3-10SKIP code
3a10.1The Kanji Dictionary
3712.7Four corner code
6ebaUnicode hex code
1-37-14JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2652Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3271New Nelson (John Haig)
805Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
599Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2308Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1324Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
17990XMorohashi
966Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
ni4, niao4Pinyin reading
nig, nyoKorean reading