Search Terms: 坊*
Dictionary results(showing 19 results)
noun
1.
2.
boy(familiar language)
noun
1.
son (of others), boy, young master(honorific language)
2.
green young man from a well-to-do family, young man innocent of the ways of the world
Other readings:
坊っちゃん【ぼっちゃん】
noun
1.
Buddhist priest, bonze
2.
close-cropped hair, crew cut, person with a shorn head
3.
boy, sonny, lad(familiar language, derogatory)
4.
not catching anything (in fishing)
See also:お凸 (おでこ)
5.
the August 20-point card in hanafuda
See also:花札
Other readings:
房主【ぼうず】[1]
Notes:
- word containing out-dated kanji
noun
1.
bonze, monk
2.
monk's dwelling(only relevant for ぼう)
3.
boy, son, sonny
4.
I, me(only relevant for ぼう)(used by male children)
suffix
5.
little(familiar language)(only relevant for ぼう)(after name; familiar form of address)
6.
person who is ...(only relevant for ぼう)(often preceded by ん)
Other readings:
坊【ぼん】
adjective
•
overly pious, sanctimonious, priestly, monkish
Other readings:
坊主臭い【ぼうずくさい】
noun
•
female or male prostitute serving a monk, luring a monk into depredation
expression
•
if you dislike someone, you will end up hating everything he stands for, hate a priest, and you will hate his very vestments(proverb)
noun
•
Sicyopterus japonicus (species of goby)(usually kana)
Other readings:
ボウズハゼ
expression
•
monks make pure profit, monks need no capital and have no expenses, so their income is pure profit
noun
•
bozu mekuri, bonze turnup, card game played with a hyakunin isshu deck
See also:百人一首
Other readings:
坊主捲り【ぼうずめくり】
noun
1.
monk, priest(honorific language)
2.
boy(honorific language, familiar language)
Other readings:
坊ん様【ぼんさま】[1]
Notes:
- irregular okurigana usage