はけ

See also: はげ and ばけ

Japanese

Etymology 1

Noun

はけ • (hake

  1. (northern Japanese dialect) a high seaside or steep riverbank cliff or bluff

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of はけ – see the following entries.
刷毛
[noun] brush (for painting); whisk
[noun] the end of a man's topknot
捌け
[noun] drainage
[noun] selling (well, poorly)
[verb] imperfective and stem (or continuative) forms of 捌ける (hakeru) [ichidan]
(This term, はけ (hake), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as はけ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as はけ.