Illustration: In a Japanese family living room, a middle-aged man holds an old photographic portrait beside his face while his adult daughter studies the resemblance. The portrait shows the same distinctive eyebrows and crooked smile, but thick dark hair and smooth cheeks.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

老ふける

fukeru

to look older, to age

Example sentences

気苦労きぐろうで彼かれは急きゅうにふけた。
Care aged him quickly.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
彼かれは年としの割わりには老ふけて見みえる。
He looks old for his age.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
白髪はくはつのおかげで彼女かのじょは年としよりふけて見みえる。
Her gray hair makes her look older than her age.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 老

老old man; old ageOnロウKunおいる・ふける

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences

Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store

For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store