お化け

Japanese

Kanji in this term
化
ば Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Alternative forms

• 御化け

Etymology

From お (o) (general honorific prefix) + 化け (bake), nominative of 化ける (bakeru, “change oneself into”)

Noun

お化(ば)け • (obake) 

1. apparition, specter, ghost

   お化(ば)けが出(で)る。

   Obake ga deru.

   To be haunted.

Derived terms

• お化(ば)け屋敷(やしき) (obake yashiki, “haunted house”, literally “ghost house”)

See also

• 化(ば)け物(もの) (bakemono)