Entry
  1. Noun

    namahage; folklore demon of the Oga Peninsula (people dress up as them on New Year's Eve to admonish children)

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 生剥げ【なまはげ】生剝【なまはげ】生剝げ【なまはげ】

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

life, genuine, birth

Kun
い.きるい.かすい.けるう.まれるうま.れるう.まれうまれう.むお.うは.えるは.やすなまなま-な.るな.すむ.す-う
On
セイショウ
Strokes
5
Taught
Grade 1
JLPT
N5
Frequency
29 of 2500
Radical
life
WaniKani
Level 3

Built from

Used in names as

あさいきいくいけうぶうまいおいぎゅうくるみごせじょうすぎそうちるなばにうにゅうもうよいりゅう

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
4-5-2SKIP code
0a5.29The Kanji Dictionary
2510.0Four corner code
2472deroo
751fUnicode hex code
1-32-24JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2991Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3715New Nelson (John Haig)
3497New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4309Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2179Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2933Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1555Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1675Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
29A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
214Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
67Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
21670Morohashi
42A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
44Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
44Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
34sakade
71Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
44henshall3
43Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
9crowley
49Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
2.4busy_people
1327Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1569Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
sheng1Pinyin reading
saengKorean reading
n5JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
3WaniKani level
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

come off, peel, fade, discolor

Kun
へ.ぐへず.るむ.くむ.けるは.がれるは.ぐは.げるは.がす
On
ハクホク
Strokes
10
Frequency
2383 of 2500
Radical
knife

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
1-8-2SKIP code
2f8.4The Kanji Dictionary
2210.0Four corner code
5265Unicode hex code
1-39-77JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
695Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
496New Nelson (John Haig)
2106Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2145Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1227Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1427Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1719Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
bo1, bao1Pinyin reading
bagKorean reading