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坊 kanji
boy, priest's residence, priest
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Secondary school
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NoneWords with 坊
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N4寝坊Popularsleeping in late; oversleeping; late riser; sleepyhead
- N4赤ん坊Popularbaby; infant
- N2坊さんPopularBuddhist priest; monk; boy
- N2坊やboy; son; child; mere boy; stripling; greenhorn
- N1朝寝坊Popularsleeping late in the morning; sleeping in; lie-in; oversleeping; late riser; person who is bad at getting up in the morning
- —坊主PopularBuddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; person with a shorn head; boy; sonny; lad; not catching anything; getting skunked; the August 20-point card
- —本因坊PopularHon'inbō; Honinbo; grandmaster
- —お坊さんPopularBuddhist priest; monk; son (of others)
- —坊bonze; monk; monk's dwelling; boy; son; sonny; I; me; little; person who is ...
- —前坊former crown prince; the late crown prince
- —凸坊beetle-browed boy; mischief
- —坊間all over town
- —僧坊priests' temple quarters
- —御坊temple; monk's quarters; monk
- —宿坊visitor's or pilgrims' lodgings in a temple; priest's quarters
- —柚坊swallowtail butterfly larva (a pest of citrus plants)
- —中坊middle-school student
- —赤坊Bodianus cylindriatus (species of hogfish)
- —黙坊silent person; taciturn person
- —本坊head temple (of a branch temple); head priest's temple quarters