noun
A common household broom for sweeping floors.
ほうきで庭を掃いた。
I swept the garden with a broom.
Usually written in kana; the kanji forms 箒 and 帚 are rare and may not be recognized by all readers.
Kanji form; uncommon in modern writing.
Variant kanji form; even less common than 箒.
掃除機 is a vacuum cleaner, while ほうき is a traditional broom.
The origin is uncertain; the word is native Japanese and the kanji are conventional associations.