Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
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On reading compounds

  • 呆 【ホウ】 (I'm) shocked
  • 呆ける 【ボケル】 to grow senile, to be childish with age, to be mentally slow, to be befuddled, to play stupid, to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine), to become engrossed in, to become absorbed in
  • 痴呆 【チホウ】 dementia
  • 踊る阿呆に見る阿呆 【オドルアホウニミルアホウ】 you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; we're all fools, so let's dance

Kun reading compounds

  • 呆ける 【ぼける】 to grow senile, to be childish with age, to be mentally slow, to be befuddled, to play stupid, to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine), to become engrossed in, to become absorbed in
  • 呆れる 【あきれる】 to be amazed, to be shocked, to be astonished, to be astounded, to be disgusted, to be exasperated, to be fed up

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dai1, ai2
Korean:
mae, bo

Spanish

  • perplejidad
  • conmoción
  • estar perplejo
  • estar conmocionado

Portuguese

French

896 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2712 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3395 Morohashi
738 New Nelson (John Haig)
2181 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2297 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3d4.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
6090.4 Four corner code
1-42-82 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5446 Unicode hex code