吠 – bark, howl, cry

7 strokesN3 vocabulary

The kanji 吠 means bark, howl, cry. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ハイ、ベイ (hai, bei); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ほえ.る、ほ.える (hoeru, hoeru). It is written with 7 strokes, under radical 口 (no. 30).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ハイ	hai
On’yomi	ベイ	bei
Kun’yomi	ほえ.る	hoeru
Kun’yomi	ほ.える	hoeru

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 口 (Kangxi radical 30). Components: 犬・口.

Words using 吠

吠えるほえるto bark

Example sentences

犬が郵便屋さんに吠えた。

The dog barked at the mailman.

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Kanji with the same radical

同合員問和名向告品各台口営可商味

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.