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呆 kanji
be amazed, disgusted, shocked
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- N1 vocabulary
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ホウ
Kun readings
ほけるぼけるあきれるおろか
Words with 呆
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —痴呆Populardementia; stupidity; foolishness; fool; idiot
- —呆(I'm) shocked
- —痴呆症dementia
- —阿呆口stupid chatter; foolish talk
- —一読呆然a (single) reading (a perusal) leaves one dumbfounded
- —老年痴呆senile dementia
- —老人性痴呆senile dementia
- —麻痺性痴呆paralytic dementia
- —拳闘家痴呆dementia pugilistica; boxer's dementia; punch-drunk syndrome
- —早発性痴呆dementia praecox
- —早発性痴呆症dementia praecox
- —老人性痴呆症senile dementia
- —阿呆の三杯汁only a fool with no manners asks for another helping more than once; only fools are gluttons
- —阿呆の話食いan idiot will swallow anything; an idiot will believe anything they hear; fools act without thinking
- —阿呆の足下使いfools use people to pick up things lying at their own feet; stupidity of using people for small things
- —踊る阿呆に見る阿呆you're a fool if you dance, and a fool if you just look on; we're all fools, so let's dance
- —癡呆dementia; stupidity; foolishness; fool; idiot
- —阿呆鳥albatross (esp. the short-tailed albatross, Phoebastria albatrus)
- —呆けるto be mentally slow; to be befuddled; to become engrossed in; to become absorbed in; to become frayed and dishevelled (of hair, grass, etc.); to be fluffy
- —病み呆けるto become senile due to illness; to become wasted by illness