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坊 kanji
boy, priest's residence, priest
- JLPT level
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- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Secondary school
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- —牌坊paifang (Chinese architectural arch or gateway)
- —坊舎monk's quarters
- —丸坊主close-cropped head; shaven head; being treeless (of a mountain, hill, etc.); being leafless (of a tree, shrub, etc.); being bald; being bare
- —次男坊second son
- —正覚坊large sea turtle; heavy drinker
- —坊主頭close-cropped hair; shaven head
- —風来坊wanderer; vagabond; capricious person; hobo
- —見栄坊fop; swell; dude; coxcomb; vain person
- —葱坊主onion flower head
- —茶坊主tea-server; flatterer; sycophant
- —蛸坊主man with a bald or shaven head
- —小坊主young priest; scamp
- —海坊主umibōzu; sea yōkai, resembling a huge bald-headed black figure; sea monster; sea goblin; green turtle
- —師の坊master priest
- —坊の主master of the priests quarters
- —吝ん坊miser
- —青坊主shaved head; person with a shaved head
- —坊主畳tatami mat without a "heri" edge
- —うり坊wild boar piglet
- —赤坊鯨beaked whale (esp. Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris)