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惚

fall in love with
Stroke count: 11

Readings

On readingコツ
Kun readingほけ.る、ぼ.ける、ほ.れる
Grade 9KANJIDIC

Verbs with «惚»

惚れる

Meanings

  1. fall in love with
    彼は彼女に一目惚れした。He fell in love with her at first sight.tatoeba
    彼は電話で初めて彼女の愛らしい声を聞いてすっかり彼女に惚れ込んでしまった。When he first heard her lovely voice over the phone, he fell head over heels for her.tatoeba
  2. admire
  3. grow senile
  4. infatuationRtK
  1. to fall in love (with)
  2. to fall for
  3. to become enamored (with)
  4. to be taken (with)
  5. to be attracted (by)

Popular Usage

自惚れ

Radicals and components

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Compound words

誰でも大なり小なり自惚れはある。
Everyone is more or less conceited.tatoeba
私は彼女の話し方に聞き惚れてしまった。
I was charmed by her way of speaking.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

望みのない誰かに惚れるなんて、ばかばかしいよ。
のぞみのないだれかにほれるなんて、ばかばかしいよ。Falling for someone when there's no hope is just silly.
あたし、惚れっぽいから。
あたし、ほれっぽいから。I fall in love easily, you know.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

11 strokes

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 惚

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step