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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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NoneWords with 坊
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —あわてん坊flustered person; hasty person
- —のっぺら坊flat and smooth; unchanging; featureless; expressionless; monotonous; noppera-bō; humanoid creature with a flat, featureless face
- —威張りん坊boaster; braggart; bossy person; overbearing person
- —坊主くさいoverly pious; sanctimonious; priestly; monkish
- —坊主丸儲けa monk's earnings are pure profit (due to needing no capital and having no expenses)
- —赤足長元坊Amur falcon (Falco amurensis); eastern red-footed falcon
- —坊主めくりbozu mekuri; simple card game played with the 100 picture cards of a hyakunin isshu deck
- —芋掘り坊主uneducated monk; ignorant monk; potato-digging monk
- —てるてる坊主paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)
- —味噌擂り坊主low-ranking monk (tasked with doing kitchen chores); monk
- —やんちゃ坊主rascal; mischievous kid; naughty child
- —太平洋赤坊擬Longman's beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus); Indo-Pacific beaked whale; tropical bottlenose whale
- —かんかん坊主(noisy) monk
- —聞いたか坊主monk character in kabuki who explains the story of the play
- —アメリカ長元坊American kestrel (Falco sparverius)
- —これに懲りよ道才坊take it as a lesson learned; learn from this (mistake)
- —坊主憎けりゃ袈裟まで憎いif you dislike someone, you will end up hating everything he stands for; hate a priest, and you will hate his very vestments
- —嘘と坊主の頭はゆったことがないhaving never told a lie
- —隠坊cemetery guard; crematorium worker
- —御坊cemetery guard; crematorium worker