EntryCommonJLPT N2
  1. Godan verb with 'u' ending, Intransitive verb

    to crawl; to creep; to go on all fours

    赤ん坊は歩く前にはう。
    Babies crawl before they walk.
  2. to slither; to wriggle

  3. to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread; to creep

Also written 匍う【はう】延う【はう】

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

crawl, creep, grovel, trail (vines)

Kun
は.うは.いむか.えるこの
On
シャゲン
Strokes
10
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
walk

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Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
3-3-7, 3-4-7SKIP code
2q7.1The Kanji Dictionary
3030.6Four corner code
9019Unicode hex code
1-39-71JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4698Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6058New Nelson (John Haig)
4003Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2775Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2414Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2494Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1515Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
38889XMorohashi
zhe4, zhei4Pinyin reading
jeo, eonKorean reading