呆 – be amazed, disgusted, shocked

7 strokes#1848 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 呆 means be amazed, disgusted, shocked. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ホウ (hou); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ほけ.る、ぼ.ける、あき.れる、おろか (hokeru, bokeru, akireru, oroka). 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	ホウ	hou
Kun’yomi	ほけ.る	hokeru
Kun’yomi	ぼ.ける	bokeru
Kun’yomi	あき.れる	akireru
Kun’yomi	おろか	oroka

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: 口・木.

Words using 呆

呆れるあきれるto be amazed呆然ぼうぜんdumbfounded呆気ないあっけないunsatisfying

Example sentences

君の厚かましいのには呆れたよ。

I am amazed at your audacity.

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その恐ろしい光景に呆然としている。

Stand aghast at the terrible sight.

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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.