禿: bald

bald; bare

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Readings

トク

Kun

ちびる・かむろ・はげる・はげ

Usually はげ(る) for baldness or bareness, often in kana. 禿山 (はげやま) is a treeless bare mountain.

禿げるはげるto go bald

禿山はげやまbare mountain

禿鷲はげわしvulture

禿頭はげあたまbald head

祖父そふは若わかいころから、少すこしずつ髪かみが禿はげてきたそうだ。

They say my grandfather's hair has been thinning bit by bit since he was young.

山火事やまかじのあと、あの山やまは禿山はげやまになってしまった。

After the forest fire, that mountain turned into a bare mountain.

動物園どうぶつえんで、禿鷲はげわしが大おおきな翼を広つばさをひろげていた。

At the zoo, a vulture was spreading its large wings.